This study reviews the development of photocopying and its role in education, and traces the corresponding political responses of educational and university library associations in the effort to revise U.S. copyright law. Relationships between the information explosion and the phenomenon of neo-publishing are indicated. (Author)

The practices of media personnel regarding the duplication of copyrighted materials were studied through an opinionnaire designed to elicit responses (yes/no/perhaps) to 24 hypothetical work situations involving the possible duplication of seven categories of copyrighted media: film, filmstrips, videotapes, records, audio tapes, slide/tape series,…