RE: electronic journals CCC

[David Goodman <dgoodman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>]

The right to ILL of electronic resources is, according to the publishers,
not covered by copyright, but the licensing terms, which as a contractual
agreement, supersede the copyright provisions. Whether this is
indisputably correct legally I am not in a position to say. But most of us
have been assuming that it is safer to assume that it is. So you would not
be waiving copyright--it unfortunately just doesn't apply. Whether this
_ought_ to be correct, whether it is good policy, is another matter. I
have some strong opinions about that.


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