RE: Scholarly communication, copyright, and fair use

["Fitzgerald, Michael" <mfitzgerald@udc.edu>]

Sandy Thatcher wrote:

>If the library subscribes to journals in electronic form and 
>teachers provide URLs to the content paid for, publishers have 
>no objections. When libraries turn into subsidiary printing 
>operations and create many more copies of articles than they 
>purchased through subscription, that indeed exceeds what they 
>paid for and interferes with the market for the publishers' 
>products.

So if the teacher provides links to paid-for .pdf files of 
articles and the student then prints them out, that's OK, but if 
the teacher has them printed out ahead of time it's not? Does 
anyone really believe that such course packs are being read by 
anyone other than legitimately registered students?

Michael Fitzgerald
Electronic Services Librarian
Learning Resources Division
University of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC 20008
phone: 202-274-6387
fax: 202-274-6012