You are under no obligation to prove anything. You can ignore their
letter. It's up to them to sue if they can prove you have been infringing -
a quite different kettle of fish. The NLA keep trying this sort of thing
on, and should be rebuffed. Either ignore them, or else write to them
stating "We are under no obligation in law to prove anything to you."
Such a robust approach of course can only be adopted if you are sure no
infringement has occurred in recent years!
Charles
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
Tel 01509-223065
Fax 01509-223053
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From: "Ruth Malaney" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:52 AM
Subject: newspapers and copyright
Dear All,
Our college senior management has been contacted by the Newspaper
Licensing Agency pushing us to take out a copyright licence for ad hoc
copying of newspapers. We have been told that we have to prove that we
can ensure that no one copies anything from newspapers to not pay the
licence. They also want back payments dating back to 1996.
We subscribe to Infotrac and have a written agreement with The Guardian
that we can put links to their pages on our VLE and Intranet. We also
have directly acquired written permissions to photocopy from the two
local papers for this area. So as far as we are concerned we think we
are covered.
We'd be interested to hear if any other FE colleges have been similarly
approached and if so how did they deal with this situation, particularly
identifying what copying took place back to 1996
Many thanks for any advice
Ruth
Ruth Malaney
Librarian
Mid Cheshire College
Chester Road
Hartford
Northwich
Cheshire
CW8 1LJ
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