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USES OF PHOTOCOPIED MATERIAL REQUIRING PERMISSION

The library will make every effort to obtain permission to make copies of copyrighted works or to purchase copyrighted works not owned in its collection for materials that instructors wish to place on closed reserve.

  1. repetitive copying: Classroom or reserve use of photocopied materials in multiple courses or for successive years requires advance permission from the owner of the copyright [17 U.S.C. #107(3)].

  2. copying for profit: Faculty should not charge students more than the actual cost of photocopying the material [17 U.S.C. #107(1)].

  3. consumable works: The duplication of works that are consumed in the classroom, such as standardized texts, exercises, and workbooks, require permission from the copyright owner [17 U.S.C. #107(4)].

  4. creation of anthologies as basic text material for a course: Creation of a collective work or anthology by photocopying a number of copyrighted articles and excerpts to be purchased and used together as the basic text for a course (course pack) requires the permission of the copyright owners. Such photocopying is likely to be considered as a substitute for purchase of copyrighted materials, and thus unlikely to be deemed fair use [17 U.S.C. #107(4)].

  5. interlibrary loan uses: In any one year period, the library may obtain, through interlibrary loan, up to five photocopied articles published in the last five years in a journal not owned by the library. Further requests for articles from the same journal require payment of fees to the Copyright Clearance Center, or permission of the copyright proprietor. The law requires the library to keep accurate records of interlibrary loan photocopy requests.

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