[ILL-L] forwarding electronic documents

[joseph augustin]

If I understand your question correctly, it isn't an issue of copyright law;
but may occasionally be an issue for particular titles, depending on the
arrangement
between the publisher and the lender.
     Basically, if it is legal for them to copy a given title interlibrary
via email, it is legal for you to
pass it on to your patron. By forwarding the article to one patron, you are
not making a copy.
     Once that article is in the hands of your patron, it becomes his/her
responsibility to
mind copyright law.
Sending a stock "This material may be subject to copyright protection"
message couldn't hurt, of course.

-- 
Joe Augustin
Interlibrary Loan & E-serials
Earlham College (IEC)
(765) 983-1307
ill at earlham.edu

On 11/1/07, Document Delivery <DocDelivery at iona.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Lucas, Debra
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:47 AM
> To: ill-l at webjunction.org
> 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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