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Research Collections, ILLs and Copyright



The difference is that the library has purchased a
subscription at the institutional rate in order to
make it available to its patrons.  This rate (often 5
to 10 times the price an individual would pay for a
subscription to the same journal) supposedly
compensates the publisher, and possibly the author,
for the use of their work.  Some publishers don't
believe they receive enough compensation and there has
been a series of increasingly restrictive copyright
laws and ever more narrow definitions of "fair use"
over the past 25 years.

As to the number of copies Catherine Bruck mentions,
that is addressed in the CONTU guidelines, a document
that attempted to come up with workable  parameters
for the rather nebulous fair use provisions of the
Copyright Act of 1976.
Librarians and publishers worked to develop these
guidelines, partly to head off a raft of lawsuits
testing the limits of the law when it was first
enacted.  Whenever an interlibrary loan request is
generated, the requesting library indicates whether
the request confoms to ccg (the fairly narrow CONTU
guidelines) or ccl (the broader copyright law).

Libraries are required by CONTU to post guidelines for
fair use photocopying adjacent to photocopiers used by
the public.  Additionally, the fair use stamp is
supposed to be prominently displayed on photocopies
provided via ILL, (although a lot of stamps have worn
out and probably not been replaced.)  Finally, the
patron signs a statement at many institutions when
they make an ILL request that indicates, among other
things, that the material requested will not be used
for "any purpose other than private studey,
scholarship or research."


-- "Wood, Thomas" <Wood.Thomas@UIS.EDU> wrote:
> If a patron can photocopy articles from a journal in
> a library under "free
> use," why can't a patron photocopy the same articles
> if they're housed in an
> archival collection?
>
>
> Thomas J. Wood
> Archivist
> Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
> University of Illinois at Springfield
> P.O. Box 19243
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