Wally Dixon writes: >I found at least two dozen very >cool articles in the American Psychologist. Being rule-minded as I >am, I checked their copyright policy. I did this pro-forma because I >had assumed that APA would be at the cutting-edge about publication >policy for the distribution of their copyrighted articles for use in >academic courses. But you know what happens when you assume! Not >only am I not allowed to copy and distribute more than a single APA >article to my students freely, but I have to pay 35 cents per page >per student. This figure came from the Copyright Clearance Center. > Now I am confronted with three courses of action: 1) not >share the articles with my students, 2) break the copyright law and >distribute the articles anyway, or 3) find some loophole that will >allow my students to get copies of these articles without any of us >breaking the law. > I am writing to TIPS to follow up on the third option. Have >any of you found ways of accomplishing this objective without >becoming a criminal?
What happens if you distribute a bibliography of the articles and let the students obtain their own copy from the library (e.g., download a PDF file from PsychArticles)? Don't they have a right to do this as students of the University using the library subscription without violating copyrights? Claudia Stanny ________________________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology Phone: (850) 474 - 3163 University of West Florida FAX: (850) 857 - 6060 Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
