Can we scan a book and make CD for students ?
Dear Professionals. If we have such good reference books, or such books which are used frequently, can we scan all these book and make cd for students circulation ? Is there any copyright act implies for this work ? please reply with copyright act reference. Thanking you, Tejas Shah Librarian VVP Engineering College Rajkot M:09428200521 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
You cannot make copies / CDs. If you need more copies you need to buy them. These are very basic copyright laws. To make copies of books there are special exceptions relating to out of print books / those that have crossed the 50 year period after the death of an author etc. Vasumathi Sriganesh CEO, QMed Knowledge Foundation Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Web: www.qmedkf.org.in Indian Medical Sites- www.indianmedicalsites.in ----- Original Message ----- From: "tejas shah" <tej_tejas2003@yahoo.co.in> To: <LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:06 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Can we scan a book and make CD for students ?
Dear Professionals.
If we have such good reference books, or such books which are used frequently, can we scan all these book and make cd for students circulation ? Is there any copyright act implies for this work ?
please reply with copyright act reference.
Thanking you,
Tejas Shah Librarian VVP Engineering College Rajkot M:09428200521
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not 50 years but after 60years. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu@qmedkf.org.in>wrote:
You cannot make copies / CDs.
If you need more copies you need to buy them. These are very basic copyright laws. To make copies of books there are special exceptions relating to out of print books / those that have crossed the 50 year period after the death of an author etc.
Vasumathi Sriganesh CEO, QMed Knowledge Foundation Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Web: www.qmedkf.org.in Indian Medical Sites- www.indianmedicalsites.in
----- Original Message ----- From: "tejas shah" <tej_tejas2003@yahoo.co.in
To: <LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:06 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Can we scan a book and make CD for students ?
Dear Professionals.
If we have such good reference books, or such books which are used frequently, can we scan all these book and make cd for students circulation ? Is there any copyright act implies for this work ?
please reply with copyright act reference.
Thanking you,
Tejas Shah Librarian VVP Engineering College Rajkot M:09428200521
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