[ILL-L] forwarding electronic documents

[Document Delivery]

I've read and read about copyright and it's still difficult, of course.
I think the idea is that you have to send a notice of copyright with the
article (Ariel inserts a notice as the first page), and, if you get
technical, you shouldn't have more than one copy of the article, so once
it's sent you should delete it from Ariel, etc., since the one copy
you're allowed has to belong to the patron and is in their possession.
We keep ours for 15-20 days in case they lose theirs so we don't have to
reorder, but that's cheating a bit, Ed. 


Edward Helmrich
ILL Office
Ryan Library
Iona College VXI
914-633-2352 
docdelivery at iona.edu

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Subject: [ILL-L] forwarding electronic documents

Hello,

Is anyone well-versed enough in Copyright Law to say definitively if we
can or cannot forward on to a patron by email an electronic copy of a
journal article if a lender sends it to us by email as a PDF attachment?

Thanks!

Debra Lucas, M.L.S.
Head of Reference, Instruction and Interlibrary Loan Montante Family
Library D'Youville College
716-829-7764
lucasd at dyc.edu
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