From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:04:21 +0000

Please do not follow this very conservative, risk-averse,
publisher-oriented advice. To do so would be a grave dis-service to
your faculty and students. If your university follows US law, I
suggest you contact Carrie Russell in the ALA Washington Office.
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Subject: Re: Copyright Dos and don'ts

From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:33:05 +0100

In my opinion, it's really pretty simple:

1)      Assume that material is the copyright of (a) the author and/or (b)
the publisher unless it very clearly says otherwise (this applies to
figures, tables and illustrations as well as text).  Unpublished material is
the copyright of its creator (author/artist etc).  Only material published a
long time ago (as a rule of thumb, 100 years ago and more) will generally no
longer be in copyright, although US Government works are in the public
domain.  Just because it's freely available online does not mean that any
material necessarily falls outside these rules.

2)      Whether copyright or not, do not quote ANY published work without
giving a full citation to the original source;  this is sound scholarly
practice.

3)      If the extract you wish to use is 'substantial' (unfortunately,
there are no hard and fast rules in law about how much is substantial - it
can be a matter of quality rather than quantity, so err on the safe side),
get permission from the copyright owner(s) first and include whatever
acknowledgement they specify.

4)      As far as your own published work is concerned, check that you know
what your publisher's policy is, and abide by it when quoting or re-using
your work.  If there are special circumstances which do not seem to be
covered by the policy, discuss the issue with your publisher.

I hope this helps!

Sally

Sally Morris
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