Re: what are orphan works?

Just a minor clarification: I could have loaned my copy of the book to
anyone.  What I couldn't do was put copies of certain chapters in the
coursepack of assigned readings.  When you're teaching a course, it isn't
feasible to share one book around. :)

In the past, I've put the book on reserve in the library so students can
read it (and I presume some make copies).  But I was teaching this
particular course online and not all of my students were local.  These
"distance learning" students purchase coursepacks from the campus bookstore
through the mail and/or download information from online.  I am not allowed
to put copyrighted material in the official website w/o rights-holder
permission, and the campus bookstore would not photocopy it either.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:57 PM, joseph harris <[email protected]>wrote:

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

-- 
Beth


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