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Thursday, October 28, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Officials fear and doubt effects of copyright statute
Bv MICHAEL KING
Staff Writer
Reactions are mixed among university of Kansas professors and officials about the effects on teaching that might result from a new copyright law.
The new law, which will take effect Jan. 1,
1978, was signed Oct. 6 by President Ford and replaces a 1909 copyright law. It restricts the number of times that teachers within a university can photocopy copyrighted materials. It states a maximum number of words that can be photocopied and prohibits the photocopying of more than two pages of a poem for classroom distribution.
It also restricts the ability of libraries to make copies of convived works.
Stephen Goldman, associate professor of English, called the new law "extremely narrow-minded" and said it would affect all departments of the University.
"I PREDICT WHOLESALE ignoring of
existents in grounded that no alternative
exists," he said.
Goldman said short poems and essays often were unavailable at reasonable prices. Because the new law restricts the amount of photocopying that can be done, instructors won't be able to reproduce these works for classes.
Two of the law's greatest effects, Goldman said, could be an increase in the cost of students' textbooks and a reduction in the amount of material that can be used in the classroom.
He said instructors might be forced to ask students to buy additional books because materials can't be photocopied as freely as before.
DEL BRINKMAN, dean of the School of Journalism, said he didn't expect the law would cause any changes in the way that journalism classes were taught.
"There's still some leeway in the law," Brinkman, said.
"Since the individual whose work is copyrighted can grant waivers, I expect to
see increased correspondence and more red tape, but it probably won't affect the way classes are taught."
Brinkman said his first reaction to the law was that it might decrease the number of new markets for the works for some authors.
HE SAID THAT in many cases the photocopying of sections of copyrighted works introduced students to works that they later bought. Now that teachers may be unable to provide this exposure to students, market possibilities might be closed, he said.
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, wouldn't comment about
Ken Dodds an assistant to Mike Davis, University general counsel, said that KU hadn't received a copy of the law yet. He said he expected the effects until he had read it.
Francis Heller, professor of law, sald the guidelines would be followed for a university law professor.
THERE ISN'T any way, Heller said, to predict accurately the law's consequences until the U.S. Copyright Office issues its enforcement guidelines.
Anita Head, associate professor of law and law school librarian, agreed with
"Our approach to law," she said, "is that I don't know what the law is, until it has been interpreted."
In the absence of a court decision, congressional guidelines and guidelines of the copyright office must be used to determine the law's possible implications, Head said.
JAMES RANZ, dean of libraries wasn't available for comment.
John Glinka, associate director of libraries, said that he had read the law on his way to work with John. In 1978, any discussion of its consequences would be premature.
On Campus
TODAY: JOHN BOOKER, assistant professor of French and Italian, will lecture on a Tzvetan Todovari article, "la lecture comme construction," at 3:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union. KU German Club meets at 3:30 p.m. in the Union's Sunflower Room.
TONIGHT: VOLUNTEER CLEARING HOUSE meets at 6:30 in the Union's Walnut Room. ANGEL FLIGHT meets at 6:30 in the Military Science building. THE EAST ASIAN STUDIES department will present a lecture by Tetrago Nakamura, Tokyo theater critic, on Japanese novelist and playwright Mishima, at 7 in the Union's Forum Room. The INTERNATIONAL CLUB will meet at 7 in the Union's Cork Room 2. The KU SCIENCE CENTER FROM OCTOBER will meet at 7 in the Union's FOLK DANCE CLUB meets at 7 in Oliver Hall. The KU SAILING CLUB meets in the Union's parthers at 7:30. NavIGATORS meet at 8:30 in the Union's Regional厅家. A reception for NICOLAS VON HOFFMAN, Washington Post columnist and SUA Forum Series speaker, begins at 9 in the Union's Centennial Room.
Grants and awards
Three KU students in the engineering school and two students in the business school have been awarded Boeing Company Scholarships for the 1976-77 academic year. The technical scholarship recipients are: CHARLES NANCE, Prairie Village junior; MIKE WEMPE, Seneca senior; and MARY CHILDLS, Winnebago junior. The technical scholarship recipients are: MARY CHILDLS, Lawrence senior, and KENNETH JONES, Overland Park junior. The scholarships were provided by Boeing's Wichita division.
About 100 people attended the speech Tuesday night of Rosemary Park, Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, and not 25 people, as reported in yesterday's Kansan.
Events
Corrections
The new law, signed by President Ford
Oct. 6, states that an instructor can't:
—Make multiple copies of a work for classroom use if the work already had been copied for another class in the same institution.
—Make multiple copies of a short poem, article, story or essay by the same author more than once in a class term, or make multiple copies from the same collective work or periodical issue more than three times a term.
- Make multiple copies of works more than nine times in the same class term.
- Make copies of "consumable" materials, such as workbooks.
—Make copies of works to take the place of an, anthology.
An instructor can make a single copy of:
A chapter from a book.
— A short story, short essay or short
work — An essay not from a collected work.
-An article from a periodical or
poem, mother or father of a child.
—A chart, graph, diagram, drawing,
cartoon or picture from a book, periodical
or newspaper.
A teacher can make multiple copies, not to exceed one student, of.
— An excerpt from a longer poem, if the excerpt has fewer than 250 words.
in complete poem, if it has fewer than 250 words and printed on not more than two pages.
— A complete article, story, or essay, if it contains fewer than 2,500 words.
— An excerpt from a prose work, if it has (more than 1,000 words) 10 per cent of the works.
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—Make up to six copies a year of short excerpts from longer works.
For purposes of interlibrary-loans,
libraries can:
—Make up to six copies a year of a periodical published within the last five years.
—Make copies of unpublished works for the purpose of preservation and security.
Make copies of published works for purposes of replacement of damaged
—Make copies of out-of-print works that can't be obtained at fair prices.
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