From: Mark Goodwin <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:03:20 -0400

Sally Morris has succinctly described a prudent policy from which to
start (for anyone concerned with copyright compliance).
I am not a librarian, nor am I a copyright compliance officer.

I am,

M. L. Goodwin, ELS ([log in to unmask])
Editorial Manager, Publications of The American Physiological Society
9650 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD  20814
http://www.The-APS.org


-----Original Message-----
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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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  Unpublished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2)      Whether copyright or not, do not quote ANY published work without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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