LIS-Forum members, Some thoughts on copyright related issues... Most of us know that, using copyrighted material without rights-holders permission for any purpose can be a violation of copyright. However, there are some exceptions like Fair-use. If organizations/Libraries and Librarians want to be copyright compliant, then they should have clarity on scope of the fair use before making use of the copyrighted documents. Otherwise, Librarians may be risking their organizations for a possible copyright violation. Relative to the ILL/journal articles sharing/distribution, CONTOU guidelines indicate that Libraries can share/provide a maximum of 5 articles from a subscribed journal in a given year. More info is available at: http://www.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html Best Regards, Anand Ananda T.Byrappa Manager, Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone: 91-80-25032618 Fax: 91-80-28412114 email: ananda.byrappa@ge.com Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:14:32 +0530 From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev@gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate Copyrights Laws To: "R.K.SHUKLA" <milanramakant@hotmail.com> Cc: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <c13c85220710220444p4020c507t74c2d839ec9a8a2c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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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