Mr. Kaushik You can photocopy an article from another library's collection, and give it to the end user in your library with no copyright fee / liability ONLY if your user is wanting it for general reading and not for a profit making objective of your organization If it is for the use in a project of your organization etc (where the project is a for-profit one - and usually corporate projects are), then you need to pay the copyright fee for the article to the publisher. If you cannot pay to the publisher, you will need to pay through www.copyright.com (look for the Transaction Reporting Service) You cannot keep the article so procured in your library as part of your collection. It will need to be with the end user. IF the end-user leaves the organization, he / she needs to give the article to his/her successor. If you do keep it in the library for control reasons, you need to make sure that only that particular user / successor has access to the article. If another dept / user wants a copy, you have to pay the copyright fee all over again and only then make a copy for that user 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: "Kaushik" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:02 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright Clearance of articles If a corporate library is looking for an article and procuring that article from another library by doing photocopy of the same and then using that in the library ....then will such procurement be copy right cleared ? What does our copyright act say on this ? -- Kaushik Ghosh Kolkata ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----

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