Hit: tables of contents copyrighted?

[Kim Tison <ktison@CYBERTOURS.COM>]

Carol was kind enough to contact me immediately.  Many others of you also
did so and I thank you for your help once again.  Many of you, like myself,
did not know that the practice was questionable and have been doing this
for your staff just as we were.  The reason I posted the question is that I
was hoping to have the practice continued.  It was invaluable to my
professional development to be able to skim the TOC of all the current
periodical holdings and be able to pinpoint the articles of interest to me.
 Being one of our district's elementary school librarians, I do not
subscribe to all the wonderful professional journals that the high school
does with its larger budget.  There are other replies I will also post as
hits to this question.  Easier than summarizing, if it works.


>Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 09:58:15 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Carol Simpson <csimpson@tenet.edu>
>To: Kim Tison <ktison@CYBERTOURS.COM>
>Subject: Re: tables of contents copyrighted?
>
>A very good question.  There is no definitive answer.  But since the
>table of contents is part of a magazine, and the magazine itself is
>copyrighted, one must assume that the TC is as copyrighted as the rest of
>the journal.  Some professional journals =do= give permission for copying
>the TC on the masthead (usually on on the same page as the TC, by the
>way).  Others bar any copying whatsoever.  You could write to the
>publisher for permission to reproduce the TCs.  You'll probably get it.
>
>Carol Simpson, author
>Copyright for school libraries (Linworth, 1994)
>
>