RE: [h-cost] Re:[ h-cost] Costume photos
From Kate: Robin wrote: Copying pages or chunks here and there is something that happens every day in every university library and Kinko's. and Fran replied Ah: So since every crime and violation of law happens every day somewhere, it's OK for you to commit any of them? Kate adds: I don't know what Kinko's is, but in a university library copying of a section of a book (1 chapter or 5%) for private study is perfectly legal. Yes, exactly. In my post, I was attempting to draw a contrast between this sort of legal fair-use copying of small bits -- routine and unremarkable -- vs. the question of copying whole books, as discussed in the preceding paragraph of my post. It appears I didn't draw the distinction clearly enough to be understood by all, and I appreciate you and Andrew making my point clearer. The example I gave here was my (perfectly legal) practice of copying a page or two here and there (along with the title page and publishing info of the book) so I have an accurate record of material I am citing or quoting in a scholarly article. I learned to do this when I realized how hard it was to read my own handwriting in notes that were many years old, or found that I needed to check something like a city of publication to put in a footnote. I sometimes do this even with books I own so I have all the quotations for a given article in the same file. Plus I can happily run a highlighter over text on a Xerox! Kinko's, by the way, is an American chain of copy centers. That is, they were plain-old copy centers when they started sprouting up on college campuses a couple of decades ago. Now they also offer Fedex shipping, office supplies, and a bewildering array of printing/fax/computer services. They're open 24 hours and I have spent many a late night there. I once assembled an anniversary-gift scrapbook there at 3am using their nice selection of acid-free decorative papers and their good paper cutter. I figure the only thing they're missing now is a coffee bar. --Robin _ Boo! Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.aspx?s_cid=wl_hotmailnews___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re:[ h-cost] Costume photos
No library determines US copyright law. What you are describing is merely the policy of your particular library. Fran I don't know what Kinko's is, but in a university library copying of a section of a book (1 chapter or 5%) for private study is perfectly legal. Kate Bunting Cataloguing Data Quality Librarian University of Derby ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] Re:[ h-cost] Costume photos
But you'll have a very hard time getting ANY published material copied at Kinko's. Ten years or so ago they were the subject of a big copyright-violation suit because they were helping/encouraging faculty to make their own textbooks with photocopied materials, and neither the faculty nor Kinko's pursued the necessary permissions. Since then, Kinko's has been DEFINITELY once burned, twice shy with copying. Some years ago I wanted to make little thank-you cards for my TWELFTH NIGHT cast, and since we had danced a lavolta as our curtain call I wanted to put Queen Elizabeth I Dancing with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester on the front of the card. For that I needed (lacking a color scanner and a color printer at home) a color photocopy of the paintingand the counterperson at Kinko's WOULD NOT PERMIT me to make a tiny copy for this innocuous purpose. Even UNpublished material: My truelove had to photocopy the rough draft of a repair manual he was writing, to ship it to the company he was writing it for--and that Kinko's counterperson, seeing technical drawings bearing the company's name, refused to copy it for him without a written release from the company. --Ruth Anne Baumgartner scholar gypsy and amateur costumer p.s. Office Max obliged both times -Original Message- From: Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 4, 2007 2:43 PM To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [h-cost] Re:[ h-cost] Costume photos From Kate: Robin wrote: Copying pages or chunks here and there is something that happens every day in every university library and Kinko's. and Fran replied Ah: So since every crime and violation of law happens every day somewhere, it's OK for you to commit any of them? Kate adds: Kinko's, by the way, is an American chain of copy centers. That is, they were plain-old copy centers when they started sprouting up on college campuses a couple of decades ago. Now they also offer Fedex shipping, office supplies, and a bewildering array of printing/fax/computer services. They're open 24 hours and I have spent many a late night there. I once assembled an anniversary-gift scrapbook there at 3am using their nice selection of acid-free decorative papers and their good paper cutter. I figure the only thing they're missing now is a coffee bar. --Robin _ Boo! Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.aspx?s_cid=wl_hotmailnews___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
