Dr William Fowler wrote:
>I teach on a second year undergraduate course with 270 students.
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>I would like to put some pages and figures from a text book on a web page.
>It is unreasonable to ask each student to buy a copy of the book and 1 - 2
>copies in the library would not satisfy demand.
>
>It is possible for access to the web page to be password restricted.
>
>Can anyone tell me how copyright law applies?
The publishers are likely to view this as potentially cheating them out
of sales of up to 270 texts or at least of a sufficient number of texts
to the library to meet demand from 270 students. Essentially, the
publishers would be compensating for lack of resources in the library.
The act of converting the material into digital form alone would
infringe copyright and mounting it on the web would constitute further
infringement - to make copies and to distribute copies are both
restricted acts.
The publishers may be prepared to grant permission for you to digitise
this material and mount it on the web if you can satisfy them that the
material will be secure and if you offer them a fair return for use of
their copyright material.
I would reiterate George Pitcher's suggestion that you contact SCOPE via
Helen Durndell at Glasgow University Library. We now have agreements
with more than 30 publishers and may be able to help you.
Leah Halliday
SCOPE Copyright Officer
The Library
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA
Tel: (01786) 466616
Fax: (01786) 466866
http://www.stir.ac.uk/infoserv/scope/
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