-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Change of Publisher -- Liu Liu
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:53:26 -0400
From: Karen Nadeski <knadeski@CSLIB.ORG>

Enrique Gildemeister gave a very good answer to your serial cataloging
question.

Re your query about your "Table of Contents" service:  I think what you
are doing right now is fine.  It comes under the definition of "fair
use" as I understand it.  It's only when someone wants you to make
multiple copies of an article that you would be violating the copyright
law.  But your posting seems to indicate that you are only making one
copy of each article that a particular faculty member is interested in
reading.

If you want more information, see the copyright law itself at:
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/92chap1.html#108
Section 107 discusses fair use and section 108 the reproduction of
materials by libraries and archives.

Hope this helps!

Karen

Karen Nadeski
Project Librarian
Connecticut Newspaper Project
Connecticut State Library
Hartford, CT 06106

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Change of Publisher
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:17:35 +0800
From: liu liu <liuliu@usa.com>

   While I am here, I have another unrelated dumb question:
   Our Library has been doing "Table of Contents" service for the
faculty.  We photocopy the table of contents of their chosen periodicals
and provide
photocopies of the articles they want.  Sometimes, we photocopy the same
article for more than one
faculty, and sometimes we photocopy more than one article from the same
periodical for a
faculty.  Are we violating the copyright law?  Recently I have come
across a circular on copyright law,
but the legal language is difficult to understand, and do libraries have
exemption?