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Re: So you wanna talk copyright . . .



At 11:18 AM 11/15/00 -0500, Hamson, Susan wrote:
>Colleagues.
>
>I have a copyright scenario for you.  I'm interested in any feedback
you
>may have.
>

While people on the archives list can give all sorts of feedback
about a copyright problem, few, if any, of us are lawyers. Rather than
soliciting opinions from the list, it would be best to find out what
your organization's lawyers have to say about it. They can ask you
questions to elicit the pertinent facts, and as someone pointed out,
in the event that there might be a law suit, they are the ones that
will have to deal with it. Copyright lawsuits can be time-consuming
and expensive. And whenever I'm attending a copyright workshop and
someone asks, "But who would catch me?" I tell a story that I call,
"The Time My Mother Gut Sued for Copyright Violation." To make a long
story short, she was president of an organization that was named as a
party to a copyright violation. The organization was, in fact, not
involved, but they still had to defend themselves, and their insurance
company ended up paying $4000. to settle the suit rather than incur
more expenses in going to court to prove their innocence.



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Special Collections Librarian/Archivist

Culinary Institute of America
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Hyde Park, NY  12538
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