Dear Harvey;
What you said!
You can quote from articles, but not reproduce them in their entirety. You
must also cite them. Articles can be reproduced for educational purposes, but
the number of articles per student is limited. You could reproduce a copy of an
article from a scholarly orchid journal, but don't try to download music or
movies from a peer to peer network on your college's LAN, burn CDS, and then
sell them. No one will accept your pushing of the envelope....!
The electronic database JSTOR is an excellent place to get out of print
orchid botany articles. Some of the large city libraries subscribe to JSTOR.
if you ask someone at a school for an article via interlibrary loan, they do
support the journal via an electronc subscription service, as Harvey wrote.
Regards,
Nancy
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:00:29 -0500
From: "Harvey Brenneise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [OGD] "Bootleg" articles
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Paul gave a very good exposition on the concept of "fair use." I'm a
librarian and couldn't have done a better job myself! I'm surprised that it
doesn't exist in Singapore. The hard part about explaining the concept is
that there is a matter of interpretation of what constitutes fair use and
what constitutes infringement.
I recently interviewed for a librarian position at an institution (a
for-profit biomedical) that was clearly violating fair use (rules are
different for educational and for-profits). They were getting electronic
copies and passing them around the company. The so-called Texaco case made
clear that this could not be legally done. That is one reason there is an
organization called the Copyright Compliance Center (CCC). Even libraries
that do free interlibrary loans have limits on how many articles they can
"borrow" from a given journal in a given year. If they go beyond this, they
are expected to either subscribe to the journal or pay a fee to the CCC.
The practice of individuals providing each other this kind of copying
service is fairly new historically (since scanning became so easy). Of
course, for years many scientific and a few other journals have provided
authors a set number of copies of their article (reprints) which others can
request and the author is expected to pay the postage to send the requestor
the article. There are even standardized post cards which one can use to
request these. These are sometimes the same journals that have charged the
authors page costs rather than paying the author for use of the article.
Quite a little racket, actually. With the Internet, the whole set of common
practices of academic publishing, have come into question (partly because
institutions through their libraries often cannot afford to
buy--again--information created on institutional time by their own
employees!). Of course, certain publishers (one in the Netherlands in
particular) make huge profits for their shareholders through their
monopolistic practices.
I'll stop before I get on a real rant! <g>
Harvey Brenneise
West Seattle
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