from [log in to unmask] Apologies in advance for what must be a silly newbie question: I'm the new part-time coordinator for the language lab in the intensive English program here at Iowa State, where we have a ton of old paper- and cassette-based materials that are collecting dust on our shelves. The director has asked about the possibility of transferring the reading, listening and test-preparation material into digital form and making it available to our students via the lab computers. Assuming this stuff is all copyright-protected, I suppose this would not be legal, even if we could control access so that students could use the material only while in the lab. Am I correct in assuming so? And if so, is there something else we could do with this material so it does not go to waste? On a related note: can anyone direct me to a good copyright-law primer which spells things like this out for language-lab managers? Many thanks, -- Jim Ranalli Ross 353 TESL/Applied Linguistics Program Iowa State University Ames, IA 50010 Tel: +1-515-294-7460 Fax: +1-515-294-6814 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************