Re: Digest Number 3544

Joseph Harris wrote:

> I actually don't understand Beth's experience.

[She wanted to make copies of a few chapters available to her  
students, but couldn't find the author, who retained all rights, per  
the notice in the front.]

> Once a book is sold under normal contract conditions the copy is the  
> property of the buyer, not the rights owner. Changes in copyright  
> licencing can hardly be retrospective. It seems a wierd action by  
> your campsus bookshop; certainly it doesn't sg=how any weakness in  
> copyright law. I would love to know what it was actually about. What  
> rights could be retained to prevent the borrowing of a sold book?  
> Very odd.


Not library, not borrowing a copy purchased years earlier. Beth was  
talking about a course-pack, where the campus bookstore copies  
chapters and sells the copies to the students. This is normal, but  
requires the store to get permission from the rightsholder, usually at  
a couple of cents per page, per copy.

Our Copyright Clearance Center makes that possible on a widespread  
basis.

But, to do that, the rightsholder has to register, and they have to be  
known.

NO copyshop is going to violate the Kinko's case ruling. It's waaaay  
too expensive if you're caught, as Kinko's was.

Marion Gropen
Gropen Associates, Inc.
By-The-Question Consulting,  Tools for Publishers, & Classes
www.GropenAssoc.com
Her blog: www.GropenAssoc.com/blog





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