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 ------------- 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 ------------- -----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 <milanramakant@hotmail.com> wrote:
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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