[WEB4LIB] Re: Audio books being shared

[Eric Hellman]

Jerry,

I'll bet you a dime that you haven't tried napster either.

Many academic libraries routinely distribute ENTIRE copyrighted 
articles from their collections to other libraries around the world, 
either by permission or through well established fair-use. The 
electronic equivalents of this practice are a subject of contention 
between publishers and libraries.

I've recently been encouraging publishers, librarians, and others to 
actually try out Napster (Macster's very impressive as well), to see 
what the fuss is about, and and to learn why they have to completely 
rethink their reasons for existence. Not doing so is burying ones 
head in the sand.

If you're still a Metallica fan, you can claim a hardship exemption.

Eric

At 11:14 AM -0700 6/23/00, Jerry Kuntz wrote:
>Eric,
>     I don't recall the last time one of our ILL staff reproduced a
>copyrighted item from our collection in its entirety and distributed it
>worldwide. Can I get this ILL service from your library?
>Jerry Kuntz
>jkuntz at rcls.org

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