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Zakariya, Sally Banks – American School Board Journal, 1985
Some school systems are recognizing their responsibility to check software piracy, and a few publishers are responding to schools' needs and offering discounts on multiple copies of software to schools with policies protecting software copyright. Includes a model policy example. (MD)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Computer Software, Copyrights, Courseware
Talab, Rosemary Sturdevant – Educational Technology, 1984
Defines copyright, and discusses what a copyright protects, the five basic rights of a copyright owner, and the rights of the software program owner. Also discussed are other forms of educational software protection including trademarks, trade secrets and patents, and software usage, copy protection, and possible future developments. (MBR)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Copyrights, Court Litigation, Documentation
Salt Lake Community Coll., UT. – 1999
This handbook is designed to provide guidelines for members of the Salt Lake Community College (Utah) community, faculty, administrators, staff, and students to follow in using copyrighted materials legally and appropriately. Perhaps the most often misinterpreted section of the U.S. Copyright Law of 1976 is Section 107: Limitations on Exclusive…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Copyrights, Fair Use (Copyrights), Federal Regulation
White, Sylvia E. – 2000
This paper presents a guide to fair use, particularly use of new media in the classroom. It begins with a brief overview of the fair use doctrine and then presents guidelines for copying of printed materials, use of videotaped materials, and the use of multimedia (the last summarized from the Consortium of College and University Media Center's…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Copyrights, Elementary Secondary Education, Fair Use (Copyrights)
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Chemical and Engineering News, 1973
Reports on a recent decision of the United States Court of Claims in Washington which permits the National Institutes of Health library and the National Library of Medicine to photocopy copyrighted scientific articles for researchers without paying royalties to Williams and Wilkins Company, a medical publisher. (JR)
Descriptors: Copyrights, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Information Dissemination
Seymour, Jim – Audiovisual Instruction, 1973
A proposal for one possible route to determining an equitable basis for school districts and other end-users of educational films to produce in-house video copies of those films, while not violating the rights of the holders of copyrights on the films. (Author)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Copyrights, Fees, Film Libraries
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Saffady, William; Garoogian, Rhoda – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1981
Concentrates on new product announcements and published studies in the field of micrographics, full size document reproduction, and video technology. Interpretive but not exhaustive, this review identifies trends of significance for the present and future of information processing. Sixty references are listed. (Author/RAA)
Descriptors: Computer Output Microfilm, Information Processing, Library Technical Processes, Microreproduction
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Epstein, David G. – Federal Communications Law Journal, 1978
The limited extent to which the new copyright act altered performers' rights is examined with emphasis on the broadened provisions that preempt the state law remedies available to performers. The arguments concerning revision of the present law to expand performers' rights are considered and it is argued that the case for greater protection is a…
Descriptors: Artists, Civil Liberties, Competition, Copyrights
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Smith, Elizabeth H.; Olszak, Lydia – Library Resources & Technical Services, 1997
Discusses how main and departmental art libraries handle mutilated art books based on experiences at East Carolina University (North Carolina). Highlights include a survey of academic libraries which are members of ARL (Association of Research Libraries); costs; importance of the work; amount of mutilation; and availability of photocopiers to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Branch Libraries, Costs, Higher Education
Turner, Judith Axler – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
The unauthorized reproduction of printed material in electronic form, particularly using optical scanning, is rising and would be impossible to monitor. The publishing industry is trying to establish the extent of the trend and determine how to cope with the copyright problems it raises. (MSE)
Descriptors: Copyrights, Electronic Publishing, Facsimile Transmission, Federal Regulation
Turner, Judith Axler – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
A lawsuit against Kinko's, a nationwide chain of photocopying stores, is expected to be filed soon. The target of the lawsuit is photocopied anthologies used by professors to supplement textbooks or to substitute for them altogether. There is evidence that anthologies have been produced without permission of copyright owners. (MLW)
Descriptors: Anthologies, Copyrights, Court Litigation, Higher Education
Turner, Judith Axler – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
Publishers are suing Kinko's Graphics Corporation for copyright violation, claiming that they illegally reproduced "substantial portions" of 12 books and included them in anthologies made for professors at Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and New York University. Off campus copy shops represent a major threat to…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Bookstores, College Faculty, College Stores
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Dodson, Suzanne Cates – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1989
Provides an overview of articles addressing the reproduction of library materials. Topics covered in the review include the use of microforms in libraries; bibliographic control of microforms; copyrights issues; micropublishing; preservation microfilming; technical production of microforms; and newer technologies, including optical data disks and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Copyrights, Equipment Standards, Facsimile Transmission
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Steinback, Sheldon E. – West's Education Law Reporter, 1989
A suit instituted by nine publishers against New York University, alleging that photocopying and distribution of certain copyrighted course materials violated the Copyright Act, was settled in April 1983. The consent decree is published in its entirety in this article and should be followed by the higher education community. (MLF)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Copyrights, Court Litigation, Higher Education
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Dodson, Suzanne Cates – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1988
Surveys the 1987 literature relevant to the work of the Reproduction of Library Materials Section of the American Library Association. Topics covered include: (1) microforms; (2) bibliographic control; (3) equipment; (4) micropublishing; (5) preservation microfilming; (6) technical production of microforms; (7) standards; (8) photocopying; (9)…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Copyrights, Facsimile Transmission, Information Technology
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