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Hello, I am looking for information re: legally reformatting brittle
materials published outside the US. I have many brittle books that are
not US imprints that have been selected for long term retention and I want to
scan/post. Unfortunately, I am unable to [easily or at all] determine their
copyright status. What do you do at your institution with this kind of
material? Do you apply US law to it? Do you attempt to determine the
copyright law of the foreign country and correctly apply it? Do you scan and
post it and if anyone ever complains you take it down? Or does a backlog of
these books simply build up in your office? I suspect I am not the only Preservation operation with this
question. Perhaps you would respond to the list and we could try to get a
nice conversation going on the topic??
Cathy Cathleen
L. Martyniak Preservation
Department University
of Florida Smathers Libraries Gainesville,
FL 32611 (voice)
352 273 2830 (fax)
352 392 6597 (email)
cathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |