As a novice beekeeper (one hive due to start in the spring) and a
     (more experienced) publisher, I had assumed that my first posting to
     BEE-L, after a couple of months of listening and learning quietly,
     would be on bees, but then along came this issue...
 
 
     Jerry Bromenshenk has pretty much hit the nail on the head in his
     comments about copying or posting papers. The author of the journal
     article will almost certainly have assigned copyright (or at least
     exclusive right to publish) in the material to the journal (standard
     practice in journal publishing) and so anyone wishing to make the
     articles available over the net, or provide photocopies to anyone who
     wants them needs to clear it with the copyright holder (almost
     certainly the publisher rather than Adrian Wenner).
 
     An individual photocopying a single article for their own private
     study/research would be allowed to do so under the "fair use"
     provisions of copyright law, but this would not extend to someone
     making multiple copies for distribution (or one electronic "copy"
     available to multiple users).
 
     Leo Walford
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Subject:      Re: sending papers
Author:  MIME:JerryJBromenshenk<[log in to unmask]> at SAGELINK
Date:    17/12/96 15:53
 
 
I suspect that this steps over the line.  For those of us who deal with
large classes, most copyrights permit an occassional single copy of an
article or more copies of a part of an article, but not multiple copies of
an article  or  a significant portion of a monograph.
 
Popping an article down the net to hundreds of members of Bee-L seems to
be the same as making copies for everyone in a class - it can't be done
legally without the permission of the holder of the copyright.
 
Jerry Bromenshenk
The University of Montana-Missoula
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