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>Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:22:19 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Ed Dente <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6818 Where would copyright jail be?
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, LLTI-Editor wrote:

> --- Forwarded Message from Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> Colleagues, I present a hypothetical situation and ask your advice:
>
> (Note consistent use of subjunctive to confirm the hypothetical
> nature of this inquiry.)
>
> Suppose that in anticipation of getting permission (as has always
> been the case with a particular publisher) a lab made copies for
> students of ancillary material (delivered by the prof, as usual, the
> day before class) and sent the request for permission the same day.
> Suppose, then, that ten days later, permission was denied.
>
> Would that lab have to cease and desist, explaining that no further
> copies would be made? (I should think so.)
>
> It would be, of course, impossible to recall the copies that had
> already been made.

Dear Hypothetical Lab Director,
The police should be knocking on your door right about now.
(Would you like fries with that bread and water?)
Cheers!
Semi-seriously, one of us should volunteer to be the John Scopes of
copyright law (not me!). Earlier in a similar thread Read pointed out that
unless we use and defend our Fair Use rights, they will wither. Does it
take a test case to get a court's affirmation of those rights? Maybe IALLT
should take it on. ;-)
I point out again
that a fellow professional organization, the Music Library Association
has a written policy that is much more liberal that any ones that we use, and
they feel they have legal justification for it.
http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/Copyright/ereserves.htm
No one's ever
bothered them, and since they deal with recorded music, I would think
they'd be the first to get hit.
Ursul..er, I mean, Hypothetical Lab Director, I realize you got a written
denial of the right to copy, but perhaps it mightn't have been considered
necessary to request them in the first place(?)
 Ed

 "O gioia che si sente e non si dice."
                    -Lucia di Lammermoor

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