Message-Id: <mailto:199410050253.VAA25861@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 22:00:05 -0600 From: Kurt Foss <mailto:kfoss@DOIT.WISC.EDU> Subject: Re: copyrights To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
Lisa Weedman writes:>The Copyright Law of the US which governs reproduction of all copyrighted
>materials (Title 17, US Code) includes a fair-use provision that allows,
>within certain conditions, the reproduction of copyrighted materials. Now,
>actually understanding what those conditions are is a different story.
>---
That was then, this is now; seems the suggested use that prompted this discussion -- making the scanned images available globally on a WWW server -- is *not* exactly what fair use covers (especially with the Internet heading toward greater commercialization). That's an awful big gray area right now. Making visuals for local classroom use and distributing across the globe are magnitudes apart, seems to me. I'd surely think twice about putting any potentially copyrighted materials out on the Net.
~ Kurt
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