Respected Friend, Greetings for the day, As we all know that scanning or photocopying services comes under Reprography services. Under the Copyright Act, 1957, using extracts from books, journals, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, works of authors such as fiction, non-fiction, generalist, translators, visual artists, photographers, composers, lyricists, works of publishers like educational material, information, entertainment in various areas activities like education, government, business, and private use and other secondary rights such as reprography and scanning, posting extracts of a published work on the website etc. – requires the prior permission and a license from the author and publisher whose copyrighted work is being used. The use of published work without permission is illegal act and is an infringement of the copyright of the owner. Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation is registered under section 33(3) of the Copyright Act of 1957. It is the sole licensing authority in India. Under the Act only one society is registered to do business and can issue or grant licenses in respect of the same class of work in which copyright subsists or in respect to any other right given by the Copyright Act. For more information handbook on Copyright Act and copyright societies at www.copyright.gov.in can be read. For further detail you can search the following weblinks— http://www.irro.in/Home.php http://www.indianlawcds.com/bareacts/copyright1957p1.htm http://www.ifrro.org/show.aspx?pageid=copyright/intro&culture=en Regards, Miss Charu Mathur, Delhi. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.