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General Information
People working in academia are generally
aware of "fair use" as the guiding precept that allows educational use of copyrighted
material, and that limited use of copyrighted material for educational purposes
generally does not result in legal consequences. However, there are more specific areas
of copyright law that pertain to educators, including:
- Defining and recognizing intellectual property,
- Determining what is and what isn't in the public domain,
- Establishing copyright for - or making fair use of - digital material,
- Creating course packs (or Blackboard sites) and obtaining permissions,
and many other areas of copyright concern. Loyola/Notre Dame Library pledges to directly concern itself with any copyright questions
or issues that arise from material stored at or accessed through its facilites,
and to provide informational resources (but not legal advice) as needed for
all other instances of copyright concern that faculty may have.
To these ends, Loyola/Notre Dame Library has created an electronic reserves
statement concerning electronic reserve material accessed through the library, and has also compiled
a brief list of some of the best and most comprehensive resources for information
on general copyright, fair use, permissions, licenses and other issues.
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Reserves
1. In accordance with fair use (Section
107 of the U.S. Copyright Act), electronic reserve
systems may include copyrighted materials at the request of a course instructor.
2. Electronic reserve systems may include short items (such as an article from a journal, a
chapter from a book or conference proceedings, or a poem from a collected work) or excerpts from
longer items. "Longer items" may include articles, chapters, poems, and other works that are of
such length as to constitute a substantial portion of a book, journal, or other work of which they may be a part. "Short items" may include articles, chapters, poems, and other works of a customary
length and structure as to be a small part of a book, journal, or other work, even if that work may be marketed individually.
3. Electronic reserve systems should not include any material unless the instructor, the library, or
another unit of the educational institution possesses a lawfully obtained copy.
4. The total amount of material included in electronic reserve systems for a specific course as a
matter of fair use should be a small proportion of the total assigned reading for a particular course.
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