Re: Internet Archive's Open-Text Archives Initiative

[Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>]

You will get more sophisticated responses from IP lawyers, but the short
answer to this is that if copyrighted works in hardcopy are scanned and
made available only within the institution that had purchased the
hardcopy, the lawsuits will follow.  Some people will argue that the
online version is protected by fair use.  Most people who have invested
time and money in the development of copyrights will argue that this
action would be an unwarranted extension of the fair use principle.

Joe Esposito

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:40:54 EST, Sally Morris (ALPSP)
<chief-exec@alpsp.org> wrote:

> It is not clear to me what is the copyright situation with regard to
> scanning (and making available within the library, though not publicly)
> those books in the respective libraries' collections which are not yet out
> of copyright.  Can anyone answer that question?
> 
> Sally Morris, Chief Executive
> Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
> E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org