Posted by: ksmith
January 23, 2008 @ 3:00pm
Assuming that it is correct that state documents are not covered by copyright, and I believe that it is, the question will depend heavily on the agreement between the contractor and the state. If the contract specified that the contractor retained... Read more...
Replies: 4Posted by: MollyKleinman
January 21, 2008 @ 9:51am
There was a question about this in the forum not too long ago. You can see the discussion here:
http://www.librarycopyright.net/wordpress/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=1164
The answer to your question, which appears in... Read more...
Replies: 2Posted by: heather
January 15, 2008 @ 11:13am
Our library catalogs some .PDF files that are available freely on the internet (mostly online documents produced by non-profit organizations, or from open access journals). While we link to the original .PDF in our catalog record, we have considered... Read more...
Replies: 2Posted by: ksmith
January 10, 2008 @ 12:00pm
Several questions need to be answered here. When were the photographs taken? In what year did the photographer die? By "copyrighting" the collection, I presume you mean registering it with the copyright office; when was that done? All these dates will... Read more...
Replies: 14Posted by: Freya Anderson
January 7, 2008 @ 3:00pm
If I'm understanding correctly what you intend, it sounds like you would be creating a derivative work of the sheet music. Making a derivative work is a right given to copyright holders. It's possible that fair use might apply, but it's hard to tell for... Read more...
Replies: 2Posted by: COvalle
January 5, 2008 @ 11:39am
Depends on who you ask. ^_^ Most music publishers apparently do not believe that those lyric sites are legal, and some have been shut down. I do not know of any situations that have gone to court, however.
Replies: 2Posted by: COvalle
January 5, 2008 @ 11:34am
I just wanted to mention that the amount of work- scouring sources, research, etc- does not at all come into play in the determination of whether or not something is copyrightable in the US. Effort or work put into something ("sweat of the brow") does not... Read more...
Replies: 7Posted by: Freya Anderson
December 28, 2007 @ 11:20am
I'm not a math or science expert, but it seems to me that the copyright implications for your question depend upon what type of problems you are dealing with. Facts cannot be copyrighted, so I wouldn't think that there would be copyright issues with... Read more...
Replies: 1Posted by: ckristof@kent.edu
December 17, 2007 @ 10:47am
Google and Yahoo don't provide the vast majority of images; rather, they provide access to those images. The images themselves may or may not be in the public domain. Your use may or may not be a fair use. Since many college and university newspapers... Read more...
Replies: 3Posted by: LOTYBOY
December 12, 2007 @ 7:10pm
The ASCAP fees for playing the original music makes sense. But I don't see how that allows a DJ to make Frankenstein mixes of lets say rock songs and call them their own. That to me is the worst form of musical theft possible.
Also.......
Replies: 4Posted by: JanetCroft
December 12, 2007 @ 12:53pm
The place you might want to try for answers to these questions is http://www.mpa.org/copyright_resource_center/, the Music Publisher's Association. The FAQS in their copyright resource center look particularly helpful.
Technically your... Read more...
Replies: 5Posted by: JanetCroft
November 30, 2007 @ 1:48pm
Are you doing it person-to-person, or library-to-person? In other words, if you personally are sharing an article with someone, I can't see a problem. If the library is doing it, I also can't see it being any different from an ILL, really. Or when you... Read more...
Replies: 4Posted by: williamsonl
November 30, 2007 @ 8:48am
The length of the work has no effect on the reasoning here--you are still using the entire thing. I don't see how under normal circumstances this can be considered fair use. Even if there is no existing audiobook of the work, the owner still has the... Read more...
Replies: 3Posted by: Carrie
November 27, 2007 @ 2:42pm
I will add that when making a fair use determination, which you will have to do all of the time, I suggest that each factor is on a continuum. For the first factor, yes absolutely a for-profit educational use is not as good as a non-profit educational... Read more...
Replies: 3Posted by: Carrie
November 27, 2007 @ 2:32pm
I have really nothing substantive to add, but I would like everyone to think about this.
This is a question that comes up often and there seems to be great fear on the part of teachers and librarians that they are infringing copyright....
Replies: 4Posted by: COvalle
November 27, 2007 @ 9:05am
To me, those statements look like an attempt to circumvent what is allowed under copyright law by trying to force a license. I think we're going to see that type of language more often, and I think it's both contrary to scholarship and strongly undermines... Read more...
Replies: 10Posted by: ksmith
November 10, 2007 @ 7:13am
I am going to nitpick a bit about the fair use analysis, but I ultimately agree with Ms. Anderson's conclusion.
I think we need to be careful when relying on Kelly v. Arriba Soft. That case did not say that thumbnails are always ok; it... Read more...
Replies: 4Posted by: williamsonl
October 11, 2007 @ 7:27am
This section of 108 applies only to libraries. I am no expert on copyright outside of libraries, but I cannot see that there is any advantage to displaying the notice outside of a library other than an attempt to educate users on copyright law. [|n|n|]... Read more...
Replies: 1Posted by: AFry
October 3, 2007 @ 6:44am
I'm sorry I didn't have time to get to your question before now.
I would not consider myself an expert in musical performances. For now, I am going to assume that all of your performances and recordings are legal and just deal with the... Read more...
Replies: 3Posted by: packrat
September 20, 2007 @ 2:25pm
Because I know a bit more about copyright than others at my library, here is a situation that came to my attention today:
A mother of a special-needs child has acquired published copies of classic and limited vocabulary children's books... Read more...
Replies: 4Posted by: ksmith
September 16, 2007 @ 7:26am
I believe you can use Form TX to register a collective work, and that such registration will include illustrative matter, if what you mean by "design" can be covered by that term. I have used a single Form TX to register a journal that was being... Read more...
Replies: 2Posted by: williamsonl
September 12, 2007 @ 3:48pm
I think what you are saying is that a copyrighted book contains public domain material and you would like to use the public domain part.
The actual primary source material can be used--it is not subject to any copyright restrictions. This isn't... Read more...
Replies: 1Posted by: AFry
September 6, 2007 @ 3:57am
I have done this and believe it is legal in some cases (when I have said yes) but not in others (when I have said no).
This is the important question that I ask myself and the teacher: If you knew that electronic reserve is illegal, would... Read more...
Replies: 1Posted by: AFry
September 6, 2007 @ 3:48am
I'm not certain I understand what you are doing.
Are you copying abstracts from the actual dissertations (for example, dissertations in your collection) or the abstracts from Dissertation Abstracts? I don't have access to Dissertation... Read more...
Replies: 3Posted by: AFry
September 6, 2007 @ 3:12am
I would not want to say that this is absolutely an infringement in all cases, but this is not a practice that I would recommend.
I can imagine situations that may be legal. For instance, if the librarian is responding to a teacher's... Read more...
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