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| Topic | Question | Submission Date | Tag(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership of Employee Created Materials | At a recent WNYLRC webinar, we discussed the ownership of materials generated by library staff. Who owns the massive amount of original work g |
Copyright, Trademarks and Branding, Work-for-Hire, Labor | |
| Copying of College Textbook Chapters | Our question concerns the copying of college textbook chapters for students where the required textbook is either backordered by the bookst |
Copyright, Fair Use, Photocopies, Work-for-Hire, Academic Libraries, Digital Access, Textbooks | |
| Sharing Articles | I encountered a situation in which a patron wanted to share an article that I sent to [a not-for-profit organization’s] educational portal. |
Copyright, Section 108, Fair Use, Remote Learning | |
| Microfilming A Current Newspaper | Our local newspaper of record used to microfilm itself (using a third party vendor) for their own use in their private archives. |
Copyright, Newspapers, Section 108, Microfilm, Photocopies, Preservation | |
| Photocopying Music Scores | We have a request from a patron from another state for scans or photocopies of music scores that we own and that are still under copyright. |
Copyright, Fair Use, Photocopies, Music, Section 108, Work-for-Hire | |
| Showing Performance Video to a Sanctioned College Club | The question relates to showing a performance video to a sanctioned college club. |
Copyright, Work-for-Hire, Movies, Academic Libraries, Streaming, Section 110 | |
| Digitization of Newspapers Prior to 1923 | We would like to digitize newspapers that were published prior to 1923. |
Public Domain, Copyright, Digitization and Copyright, Newspapers, Trademarks and Branding | |
| Reformatting VHS | We are shifting away from VHS here on this campus (along with everywhere else), and have a question from an instructor about transferring a VHS |
Copyright, Digitization and Copyright, Fair Use, Section 108, Movies, VHS |
