Pointers to information on copyright issues?

[Alejandro Garza Gonzalez]

Is there some Bibliography, Web page or Magazine article out there 
that describes the nitty-gritty details of what mantaining electronic 
versions of Reserve articles involves? Is it ok while my geographic 
end-user base is small? Or is it more the number of end-users more 
than their geographic location?

When we mantain electronic versions, scanned from copies teachers 
leave us, we only handle them in that form, but we only offer 4 
printing stations inside our library. What would the impact of 
offering this service to certain subnets (extending the range to any 
computer inside our campus) via HTTP be?

The material we mantain in reserve lists is put up by teachers and 
ourselves; teachers always hand us copies of their original 
information. Regular reserve articles (in paper) are further 
photocopied by patrons for their use. Does it matter if we just 
eliminate the physical restraints and have the documents be available 
anywhere inside campus, at any time? Or would we, to allow some 
give-and-take, let only one user at a time access a particular digital 
copy of a document (where "at-a-time" would be some sort of 'Ticket' 
method, where we let any one user have access to the document for, 
say, 5 minutes, and then let the next user in the queue a shot at it)?

Any insight on who's doing this, how do they handle the legalities, 
what are the restraints on access, charges for accessing the 
information, would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.
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