Copyright issues: What is permitted: Fair use Photocopying: - Limited portion of the book (10%) or journal (two articles) for academic or research purpose only Scanning - The same limits for scanning and delivering to the end user for his/her use and NOT for storing For commercial use: You can copy / scan to send to the end user any amount, but you need to pay necessary copyright fee to the publisher or the Copyright Clearance Centre, for that many articles / chapters. Sometimes that works out to the same cost (or more) than the original! If there is a demand, then the library needs to buy as many copies as needed - not make copies. Digital copies for storage on an intranet - again you need permission from the publisher - and they WILL charge a fee for the same (the way you pay for consortia access) I have put up a small guide to copyright in our QMed website at http://www.qmedin.com/qmeddocs/copyright.html And have pointed out two useful resources there - http://www.bl.uk/services/information/copyrightfaq.html http://www.iiap.res.in/library/ambacopy.doc Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Email: vasu@qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Parinita Samant" <parinitas@hexaware.com> To: <lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:24 AM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright issues Hello All, Could we have an open discussion on Copyright Laws in India...what constitutes a copyright violation?.....................