To acquisitions librarians and book dealers 1971 will be remembered as the year of the budget cut. The recession and decreased funding had an adverse effect on libraries of all types. Acquisitions articles, other than notices of fund cuts, were in short supply in the 1971 library journal literature. (15 references) (Author)

Public Law 92-140 marks an important step forward in the history of copyright in the U.S., giving the copyright owner exclusive right to duplicate the sound recording in a tangible form that directly or indirectly captures the actual sounds fixed in the recording." (Author)

Discusses copyright ownership in the light of employment relationships, and cites actual court cases as examples. (AN)

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)

Describes efforts to preserve important library materials at the Library of Congress through the use of two new technologies: a patented deacidification process in which books are placed in a vacuum chamber, and the use of optical disc recording techniques to miniaturize and store print and nonprint images. (JL)

Conditions of contract research may lead some workers to ignore publication rights of colleagues whose reports are of limited circulation. The author presents a case example of how this process occurred with the use of his own work and argues for rigorous ethical standards in the publication of contract research results. (Author/GC)

Surveys court rulings on "piracy," or misappropriation, of advertising; concludes that the courts have refused to give advertising the same protection from piracy that they have afforded news material. (GT)

Discusses legal, political, and economic implications of technological advancement that may affect the operations and services of libraries. The emphasis is international; however, many problems have national counterparts. Included is a description of ownership and copyright problems experienced by the international MARC network. (Author/RAA)

Reports on the time, ease, and cost of obtaining permission to use photocopied journal articles for library reserve use. Findings from correspondence with 20 journals indicated that photocopying permission is usually easy to obtain and free. Results are discussed in reference to teaching, the professional implications of the accessibility of…

Under S. 22, the exclusive rights inhering in copyright, subject to certain express limitations, are summarized in section 106 and the scope of those rights is set forth in sections 113 through 117. They relate to infringement, elements of which and remedies for which are examined in this paper. (LBH)

Looks at the legalities of copyright and offers a primer of copyright law for training professionals. Addresses such issues as fair use and public domain. (JOW)

Image scanning technology permits the desktop publisher wide latitude in graphic representations. Care must be taken not to use creative material belonging to others. Teachers can have a positive impact on this problem by including instruction on the legal and ethical issues of image scanning. (JOW)

Discusses the issue of Crown copyright (copyright of government information) in Canada. This policy is compared with policies in the United States, and elimination of Crown copyright is considered. It is concluded that elimination of Crown copyright would be inconsistent with parliamentary government and might reduce access to government…