Most authors and publishers of electronic information believe that current copyright law does not address technical capabilities or reader uses and have turned to contracts or licenses to define the rights of owners and users. Discusses copyrights, fair use, and licenses and highlights licensing's unresolved issues: use and users; archiving;…

Discusses efforts to define and simplify working with copyright law. These efforts include the Fair Access and News Media Conference, the IALL Permissions Project and Copyright FAQ. Copyright is an evolving law, with definition arising from court cases, accepted practices, and untested interpretations based on expert opinions. (CK)

Schools' involvement in wide-area networks is increasing the need for copyright education for faculty and students. Copyright compliance policies and procedures should be developed along with proper supervision of school activities that have the potential to result in possible copyright violations. (MLF)

Special section on fair use and copyright contains three articles: "The Management of Intellectual Property" (Scott Bennett); "The Meaning of Fair Use" (Kenneth Frazier), including electronic infringement and examples of court cases; and "Document Delivery" (Laura N. Gassaway), including copies for primary users,…

Discusses the copyright law as it affects educators and examines the impact that new educational technologies are having on it. Topics addressed include rights of the copyright holder; challenges from distance learning, interactive video, and multimedia; fair use guidelines; and ethical and moral responsibilities of educators regarding copyright…

Discusses copyright issues that arise when creating digital archives. Highlights include public-domain material; fair use of copyrighted works; uncertain copyright status; cooperative projects; acquiring or accessing digital archives; and copyright for works the library digitizes. (LRW)

Examines definitions of ownership relevant to faculty's intellectual property. Highlights exclusive rights that copyright owners hold under Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act. Notes university initiatives looking into the question of intellectual property. Provides examples of "significant" resources which in the case of public…

Addresses many of the policy issues associated with online learning programs, particularly development of a "Comprehensive Copyright Policy," distinguished from the more commonly understood intellectual property policy issues. Discusses how not every educational use of another's work is a fair use, and asserts that universities need to…

Evaluates Section 110(2) of the U.S. Copyright Act, which allows limited uses of copyrighted materials under certain circumstances in the context of "transmissions." Examines serious problems with the section that have caused it to be generally ignored, then focuses on the Copyright Office's proposed changes to the section intended to…

This contextual exposition of the Canadian Copyright Act (1988) offers background on the Act's development and content, and describes what it says about infringements of copyright and how the Act might be applied in school contexts. Several ethical constraints and rationalizations with respect to copyright infringement are explored. (SLD)

The purpose of this advisory is to assist academic staff in retaining copyright ownership in the articles they publish in journals. Without copyright ownership, academic staff can lose control of their own work and may no longer be entitled to email it to students and colleagues, post it on a personal or course web page, place it in an…

Librarians engage in some sort of negotiation all the time. Unfortunately, library schools do not uniformly teach negotiation theory or skills. New librarians are left to their own devices to self-educate, and self-educate they must. Most of the library-specific negotiation literature and continuing education opportunities focus almost entirely on…

Faculty develop intellectual property needed for online courses while employed by an academic institution. That institution has a claim on the copyright because the instructional materials developed by the faculty members could be seen as "works for hire." On the other hand, both tradition and case law have seen faculty as the copyright…

Since the mid 1990s an increasing number of higher education institutions and organisations have been encouraging the production and submission of theses and dissertations in electronic format. Where access to electronic theses and dissertations is available via the Internet, usage figures indicate that this is a much consulted resource. However,…

This narrative, single-case study examines how liaison librarians at the University of Minnesota (UMN) came to include advocating for reform of the scholarly communication system among their core responsibilities. While other libraries may hire a coordinator or rely on a committee to undertake outreach programs, UMN has defined baseline expertise…