scanning campus newspaper / permissions

[B.G. Sloan]

I'm not sure it's quite as straightforward as Wilhelmina portrays it. You should get a clarification from your student newspaper as to what the students agreed to when they published articles,
 
Bernie Sloan

--- On Wed, 7/11/12, Wilhelmina Randtke <randtke at GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: Wilhelmina Randtke <randtke at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] scanning campus newspaper / permissions
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 11:18 PM


The university has an implied license to publish the articles.  When a student submits the article to the newspaper to publish, they give permission to publish it.  It is extremely unlikely that anything in those papers was obtained without the author knowing that it would go into the paper or even without the author intending for it to go into the paper and be published with the paper.

The newspaper is part of the university, same as the library, so you have permission to duplicate these because you are with the same entity.

-Wilhelmina


On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Ken Irwin <kirwin at wittenberg.edu> wrote:




Hi all,
 
I work at a university library, and we’re investigating the possibility of scanning the entire run of our student newspaper (outsourcing the job, not doing it ourselves). 

For those of you who have done similar projects, I would be interested in know how you determined the legality of doing so. With thousands of authors over the last century, none of whom signed contracts, license agreements, etc of any sort, I wonder how universities decide how copyright plays into all of this.
 
I am, of course, not looking for legal advice – I’m just wondering what sorts of issues you considered, who you talked to on campus, etc. 
 
Any ideas?

Thanks
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