Re: COPYRIGHT: Bookcovers

[Cheryl Sturgeon <csturgeo@OHIO.NET>]

I would think that this is not a violation of copyright especially since you
have not deprived the author of royaltys since, of course, you already own
the book.  Bookstores promote books by putting them in the window to draw
customers.  I see your bulletin board in a similar vein.  You are encoraging
the use of the book, you are not duplicating the book in order to avoid
purchasing it.  If you were to make a thousand copies of the boocover,
however, and pass it around to everyone and LM_NET, then it could be
aproblem.

Similarly, I wanted to use bookcovers for a specific authors titles on a
webpage that I made.  I found them readily available for copying on
Amazon.com.  I requested their permission which they granted by my becoming
an Amazon Associate through which I now get a small return of $ to our Young
Authors program.

Cheryl Sturgeon
Library Media Spec.
Hinckley & Sharon Elem.
Highland Local Schools (OH)
csturgeo@ohio.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Hawkins <hawkinsm@TEN-NASH.TEN.K12.TN.US>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Date: Sunday, August 22, 1999 4:39 PM
Subject: COPYRIGHT: Bookcovers


>A colleague asked if it would technically be possible to copy a book cover
>using a flatbed scanner to place the copy on a classroom bulletin board.  I
>replied that it is possible to make such a copy but there might be some
>copyright issues there.  Would using a copy in this way be a possible
>copyright violation?
>
>Martha M. Hawkins, Librarian
>Soddy-Dasiy High School
>Soddy-Daisy, TN
>hawkinsm@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
>
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