What Sarah Said: Episode 1 - Copyright Trifecta

[macevideoi]

@baldwind1976 the library has propably licensed (=bought) the right to print. So it isn't allowed by the copyright law, but by the license agreement.

[macevideoi]

Law=equal and same for everyone, licensing=customized arrangements, and negotiation power sets the table.

[macevideoi]

Also let's keep in mind that copyright is one thing, and licensing is another thing. If copyright doesn't allow you to do something you'd like to, give the rightsholder a ring and negotiate. That's the point of the whole thing; copyright sets some rights for the creator and some for the user, and they are standard and same for everyone. Then there's the negotiation process where you can arrange basically any kind of a deal with the rightsholder that you can agree about.

[LibrarianInBlack]

@baldwind1976 - Fair use is an exception to pretty much everything I just said. If you're making an article copy for educational purposes, one could say that fair use comes into play (though if you read the letter of the law, it's technically a violation of copyright). Will the copyright cops come after you for copying articles out of periodicals for your school paper (or honestly, for distributing to a few of your friends)? No, that's unlikely. But again--that doesn't mean that it's legal.

[baldwind1976]

Little confused by answer to the first question.. As an example, libraries provide access to databases w/ thousands of periodicals for which retrieved articles can be printed/emailed to the users. We allow patrons to print/email articles from databases, which it seems would be a copyright violation per your description? Also, this would make it a copyright violation for researchers copying periodical articles, studies, portions of books, etc. Is this the case? Great video thx for doing these :)