RE: Use of copyrighted business form

["Williamson, Lori D." <WILLIAMSONL@xxxxxxx>]

Well, just in general, forms are not copyrightable.  There would have to
be some really original input for this form to be covered.

Lori Wiliamson
CAC Committee Member

-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson, Gerald [mailto:ganderso@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:52 AM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Use of copyrighted business form

Greetings:



A current employee at our 501(c) 3 college would like to adapt and use a
business form here in an operational department. They acquired it at
while working former employer. The form has the word "copyright" and
date at the bottom.



In your opinion, would educational copyright apply to their proposal to
adapt the form for business  use here? If the form was used exclusively
here, without harm to the market, assuming there is one, would the
adapted form be  considered fair use? Or, is the safer coarse here
asking for permission from the company?





Jerry Anderson

Library Coordinator

Joliet Junior College

ganderso@xxxxxxx