But Tony, your form will have to change demanding that users confirm the
copies are for non-commercial research; what are you going to do about
those users who require copies for commercial research, for example the no
doubt many users working in pharmaceutical companies? Will you offer a
separate, higher priced service? If so, what are you doing about getting a
CLA licence for it?
Charles
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
01509-223065
(fax) 01509-223053
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony McSean" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: Document delivery
At the BMA we are not expecting the changes to have a substantial impact on
our document delivery service (80,000 photocopies 6,000 ILLs current
photocopy cost only £2.16, look at our web site for details). Our service
agreements specify that our document delivery services operate under the
fair use regulations; personal users are required to sign a copyright
declaration and our library institutional members are responsible under the
1988 act for ensuring that their end-users do the same. My understanding,
from what the Patents Office team said at a meeting in Cilip HQ, was that
these copyright declarations give us complete legal indemnity (although we
still refuse to supply when it would be obvious to an imbecile that an
individual user is breaking the law and rendering him/herself liable to
prosecution).
At the moment we are still in the steam age of photocopiers and posting
things off, but we will shortly moving to delivery via emailed PDFs and
electronic ordering and payment - so we're far from abandoning it all.
Tony McSean
BMA Library
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