Dear fellow professionals,
This topic is like river disputes between the states.. never ends and no
solutions... some times there will be either motivations or compulsions
to violate copyright. The basic philosophy of copyright is very noble..
"one should not reproduce without the notice/permission of
originator/owner"
In an academic institute, people tend to take copies of
chapters/articles for their academic interest. The progress of academic
research depends on availability of such material.
Copyright also is very harsh towards people taking copies for academic
activities as compared to commercial activities.
I feel most of copyright issues bothers members of academic institutes
rather than commercial organizations. Faculty and students appears not
too much worried about these copyright issues. They simply take copies
of the material they want either independently or through their
colleagues.
Since I interact with student community, my experiences are based on
pressures/demands from students, researchers and faculty members.
Some times we can ensure the copyright and some times we will not have
options except violating it. To quote a small incident..
A book was prescribed by our faculty member for his course. It is our
practice to provide that text book to all the students as course
material. The text book in multiple numbers was ordered after getting
full confirmation from suppler+publisher. The faculty was happy and
prepared his course outline according the book as he had one copy of the
same. The supplier/publisher kept on telling that the books will come...
after 30 days, he said the copies are Out of stock, cannot be supplied
and apologized... the course was about to start and the faculty was not
able to change the book as was no time to look for alternate title. He
said will go the recommended book and asked the academic section to take
copies of required chapters from the book. Finally the required chapters
of the book were photocopies and distributed...
Like this there could be so many examples in our workplaces, which might
force us to take deviations.
1. I observed, people tend to take copies if the book is good and price
is high and beyond their reach.. If good books are low priced, the
readers tend to see them as less quality books. whom to ask ?
Reader/publisher? Normally vendors send books on approval basis. During
the selection process, if faculty members take copy of the high-priced
good book and say no for purchasing to library? Or if they ask librarian
to take copy and return it? Most of the times the answer for such
copying is "NO" from librarian. But if faculty takes directly? Or if
demands through authority to do the job?
2. Generally, on ethical grounds, librarian will not encourage copying..
but what to do if the students borrow books and take copy outside? In a
student community, one student's action may influence other students
too. They too take copies, in the process the library copy gets
disfigured/damaged.. knowing the trend.. if librarian attempt for
required multiple copies in one go.. will it not save institute's
property?
3. the purpose of photocopy or scanning is same..
multiplying/duplicating.. as sukhdev says, if librarian scans the
article and sends it... how it is different from photocopying? If the
recipient provides multiple access on his internal network, what to do?
4. In the age of open sources/achieves, the authors are posting their
research outputs free on their blogs... how this copyright act really
controlling the scene?
5. Regarding cases, In management institutes the teaching is through
case studies. The cases are to be distributed to individual student for
reading and discussion in the classroom. It is purely for discussion..
The institutes, which develop case studies insist that they should buy
the required number of the cases and each copy costs around Rs.100-
Rs.200. Institute cannot/don't want to recover the cost of cases from
students as they are distributed for classroom.. the management courses
will have several cases to be given to students. In such situations what
to do except going for shortcut? In the process the librarian/institute
will buy few copies and take multiple copies for distribution? How to
tackle ethical issues?
6. Can this copyright law be honoured if production/manufacture of
photocopying machines, document scanners and duplicating machines is
completely banned?
Like this we can keep on adding questions for which the answer is
difficult.
Regards,
Manjunath
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Dr. Manjunatha K
Librarian
T.A. Pai Management Institute
Manipal - 576 104
Udupi Dist. Karnataka, India
Ph: +91-0820-2573551(0ff); 2575161(Res)
email: manjunath@mail.tapmi.org; manju_tapmi@yahoo.com
web: http://www.tapmi.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
[mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Sukhdev Singh
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 5:15 PM
To: R.K.SHUKLA
Cc: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate
CopyrightsLaws
Dear Dr Shukla and LIS-Forum Members
I feel it is an interesting topic, therefore I have changed the
subject of the discussion.
The question is whether a Librarian violates Copyrights Laws if he
supplies an Article to his user for personal use and research? This is
perhaps accepted because here he is only working on behalf of the
user.
Also, so far Inter-Library Loans are concerned, there should not be
any problem because no "copies" are made. Original Book / Journal is
borrowed and given to user. Copyright Laws restricts only making
copies of literary works.
However, what happens when a librarian makes a copy and transmits over
internet to requesting Librarian? Requesting librarian takes that
digital copy, makes a print copy and hands over to its user, hoping
that it would be used by its user for personal and research work.
To me, it appears, there is a violation by the initiating librarian as
he is not acting on behalf of his user.
What others feel about this?
--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.
On 10/22/07, R.K.SHUKLA
Though I agree with Mr. SukhdevSingh but I don,t agree with Ms Sen .It
not be a violation of copyright if article is for personal use adnd research . The demand for article shall be fulfilled by us if possible there is not need of using the help of commercial services . commercial services should be the last resort only. r.k.shukla librarian DCE
----- Original Message ----- From: gayathri sen To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:02 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Demand for service
Dear friends,
I completely agree with Mr. Sukhdev Singh's mail regarding mention of
efforts made to get a particular information before it is posted in Lis- Forum.
Example- article requests should be tried with DELNET or other commercial provoiders of DDS or write to publishers and make payment for it, so
you will not violate copyright, and if it is nowhere available, then it needs to be posted to forum, as a last resort.
Though we know the deficiency of written communication skills of few, effort should be made to present in a proper manner by the person who is
The moderator may decide not to post such requests basically to
will the that posting. maintain the
dignity of our profession.
Gayathri Sen PESIT
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