Re: Image copyright question

[Jeff Kazin <jkazin@xxxxxxxxx>]

If a faculty member had posed this question to me I think I'd look at 
section 110 of the copyright law.  It is legal, under educational use, 
to display images in a classroom setting for teaching purposes.  The 
TEACH act extends the definition of classroom setting to include course 
management systems like Blackboard, WebCT, etc.  Because the images are 
considered individual works, I'd apply this law to the images and say 
that putting pictures from a book (only the pictures) into a Blackboard 
class module would be fine under the TEACH ACT in section 110:  
Educational Use."  Putting text from the book would require a fair use 
analysis, and if it failed then permission would be required.  Also, 
this analysis does not extend to emails.  Sending the images via email 
to many parties would also require a fair use analysis, and 15 images 
would likely require permission.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Jeff Kazin

Mackellar, Laurie A (Elizabethtown) wrote:
> I know that the CONFU guidelines (which were never formally ratified)
> allowed an instructor, under limited circumstances, to digitize up to 15
> images from a single book and post them on a password-protected class
> site. Many universities still use the CONFU guidelines in the absence of
> anything else. Permission should be requested, and any fees paid for
> repeat use
>
> Laurie MacKellar
> Public Services Librarian
> Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
> 600 College Street Rd
> Elizabethtown KY 42701
> 270.706.8439
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brenda Nelson [mailto:Brenda.Nelson@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:46 AM
> To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Image copyright question
>
> Since my experience in dealing with image copyright issues is
> limited, I need some advice.
>
> Multiple images (as many as 15)  have been scanned from a single
> book. These images were then inserted into Word documents. The Word
> documents were then posted  on Blackboard (course ware).
>
> I understand that Fair Use is more limited for images than for a
> journal article, since an image is considered to be a work in and of
> itself. Do you have any suggestion as to how many images from a
> single book/article/etc (assuming that the rights holder is the same
> as the rights holder for the image) could be used once without
> getting permission?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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