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



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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     


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