Copyright Notices for Electronic Resources

[Joan Latta Konecky]

I strongly agree that we should make users aware of copyright issues. I
have been working on a copyright statement for our electronic reference
area, similar to the type of statement you see posted near the
photocopiers in most libraries. Our electronic reference area includes 
a wide variety of electronic resources - public Web access, CD-ROM 
databases, tapeloaded databases, and gateway access to databases - but 
the issues are similar (though the Web isn't a vendor's licensed product) . 

I would like to know if anyone else has devised a Copyright Notice for 
their Web or other electronic resource workstations and what wording you 
used.  Please send any responses directly to me, and I will post a 
summary to the list.   
					TIA,  Joank

 || Joan Latta Konecky 
 || Electronic Reference Services Coordinator  
 || University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
 || joank at unllib.unl.edu   

On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Thomas Dowling wrote:

> >One of our commonest requests from users is to
> >copy *images* from within web pages. We make the
> >usual point to users about copyright!
> 
> And what point is that, exactly?  Format alone does not determine whether  
> making a copy is fair use.  I'd be very ticked off if a library that  
> allowed me to download a few thousand bibliographic citations (perhaps  
> even in a format I could import into another database) automatically told  
> me I couldn't snare a copy of some 3k inline GIF.
> 
> It's good to make users aware of copyright issues.  It's potentially  
> dangerous to play copyright cop.
> 
> >The problem with clients like Netscape is that 
> 
> >the elements of a page are all cached, but given
> >*.moz filenames that offer no clue as to the file
> >type or contents.
> 
> BTW, some clients include support for downloading inline images.  I'm  
> temporarily stuck without access to good browsers on any platform (when  
> will developers come out with Netscape for NeXT??!?), but I recall it's  
> just a right-button click in Windows Mosaic.
> 
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK
>