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copyright question-duplcation for loan



 I am passing this query along from our ILL folks. They wanted to know if
before they loan a video to another educational institution they made
a duplicate copy for preservation purposes would they be violating
copyright? As I understand it, one of the exceptions to copyright is
duplication for preservation purposes. So the question is, can the
act of loaning an item be considered a preservation risk great enough to
justify the creation of a second copy under copyright law? These are
commercially produced videos purchased by my library. Any copyright
experts out there who want to tackle this one?

 Steve Fisher
 University of Denver

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