scanning campus newspaper / permissions

[Paul Butler (pbutler3)]

The place to start is the office of General Counsel for your university. Have them determine the copyright status of the newspaper/articles. For us it was determined that ownership and copyright were held by the university, so we were able to digitalize our collection.
Cheers, Paul
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Paul R Butler
Assistant Systems Librarian
Simpson Library
University of Mary Washington
1801 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
540.654.1756
libraries.umw.edu

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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilhelmina Randtke
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:19 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] scanning campus newspaper / permissions

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<mailto: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
Ken > PS - I think there was a web4lib discussion of some of this many years ago, but it appears the archives only go back to 2011 - what happened there? I must be out of the loop...
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