My understanding of the copyright issues is that you CAN use the cartoon
without permission if it is a "spontaneous" use that would make gaining
permission onerous. But to keep an archive of cartoon that one uses
"spontaneously" is pushing the meaning of the word.
-Chuck
At 10:36 AM -0600 1/28/99, David Bennett wrote:
>> I recently have tried to do the same and was quite pleased with my
>own
>> cleverness UNTIL a colleague told me that what I was doing (using
>cartoons
>> as powerpoint illustrations) was illegal. She said that at another
>> institution, word came down from administration that any use of such
>> material without consent (written?) was illegal and faculty had to stop
>> using these items. So, what is a humor-loving professor to do? (other
>than
