[PW] Re: Cost of copyright clearance -- colleges

[Michael J. Lowrey]

On 10/10/06, Robin Shapiro <robin.shapiro at pcc.edu> wrote:
> Fellow marsupials --
>
> We've proposed a new service for our college -- a copyright office
> which would handle clearance for course packs, electronic course packs,
> etc.  The administration has (not unreasonably) asked for an estimated
> annual budget.  And there's our problem....

Oh, dear. Are you not aware of the existence of the Copyright
Clearance Center, which does all this stuff already?
http://www.copyright.com/

To quote extensively from Wikipedia, " Established as a not-for-profit
organization by a group of authors, publishers and users (uniquely
among collecting societies around the world), and with representatives
on its Board of Directors not only from author and publisher groups
but from user communities (such as libraries, major corporations, and
document suppliers) as well, Copyright Clearance Center has been
engaged in the licensing of copyrighted works, primarily text, for
over twenty-five years."

The University of Rochester, among others, offers its community a very
nice Copyright Clearance and Fair Use page at
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/copyright/

-- 
Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
member, National Writers Union
has a vested interest in copyrights