License agreements in lieu of copyright: Are we signing away our rights?

Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-28

  Davis, Trisha L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33750641790     PISSN: 03646408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0364-6408(96)00085-3     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. The five license agreements were titled as follows: UMI ProQuest subscription license; SilverPlatter Information subscription and license agreement; DIALOG OnDisc license agreement; Reed Reference Electronic Publishing limited user multiuser network software and database license agreement; and Chemical Abstracts Services CD-ROM license agreement. None had any other unique identifying codes or item numbers.
2. For an excellent discussion of current fair use interpretations, see Sinofsky, Esther R., A Copyright Primer for Educational and Industrial Media Producers (Washington, DC: Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1994), pp. 47-65.
3. Hemnes, Thomas M.S., and Alexander H. Pyle, A Guide to Copyright Issues in Higher Education. Washington, DC: National Association of College and University Attorneys, 1991, p. 2.
4. Franklin, Janice R., Database Ownership and Copyright Issues Among Automated Library Networks: An Analysis and Case Study. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1993, p. 61.
5. Gasaway, Laura N., "Copyright in the Electronic Era," The Serials Librarian 24, 3/4 (1994), 153-162.