RE: Physical Copy Reserves Question

[Eric J Harbeson <eric.harbeson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have two thoughts about this, and they're both questions:

1) Does it really make sense to have professors sign off on their uses as
being fair under the law when they often have little or no knowledge of the
law (and are often very good at providing justifications which have no basis
at all in law)?

2) Having the professors sign off on the document might make them liable under
university sanctions against them, but would the university still be liable to
the plaintiffs under respondeat superior?

Cheers,
Eric Harbeson

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryant, Sally [mailto:Sally.Bryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:57 AM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Physical Copy Reserves Question

At the main branch our academic library we have been having the professors
sign our copyright policy for everything we put on reserve for them -
including our own copies of books and DVDs. I just found out on of our branch
libraries does not do this because they feel they would just need to have the
professors sign it if it would be duplicated in some way (which we do not
do).

I asked a fellow librarian who is a lawyer and she said we should have the
professors sign for everything - just to err on the side of caution. She also
said we should put a sticker with our copyright policy on our reserve books.

What does everyone do about this? What would be some good wording for a
sticker to put on the books?

Thanks!

Sally Bryant
Head of Access Services
Payson Library
Pepperdine University
310-506-4262