Re: what are orphan works?

Beth,

Yes. Now I understand. Admittedly I was educated i n the Dark Ages, and in another country, but I'm not sure even photocopying was available - it was the delights of ink and spirit duplicating or letterpress! [No, no photocopying. I remember the new delights of the complexities of the first desktop photocopiers at work ;-).]

So I am sympathetic to that problem, ;-) but not a lot. I know that a great deal of paraphrasing of material was about, and that text books were used year after year, and were often rather tatty! Oh, and they were kept in desks; I really do feel sorry for pupils facing the change here [and the longer experience in the US] of threatened back trouble from carrying so many books around all the time.]

Joseph

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From: "Beth Young" 
> 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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