From: Copyright Clearance Ctr <74767.2755@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: [Q] Reserve Room Photcopies
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Hi. We at the CCC are looking for some guidance from the academic
Library community on the subject of what help we can offer (in terms
of copyright compliance mechanisms) with the obtaining of copyright
permissions for library reserves.

In the past, reserve copying could be voluntarily authorized through
CCC's TRS (Transactional Reporting Service); the function of the TRS
is to provide a mechanism to pre-approve and authorize copies through
logging and reporting each transaction (Ex: 10 copies of the 5-page
Article NNN in Journal XyZZy were made on 2-29-95), and to pay
publisher-set royalties. More recently, though, CCC has developed
the APS (Academic Permissions Service). The function of the APS is
to authorize copying of coursepacks and classroom handouts that will
be sold or distributed to students, to track those distributions, and
to pay publisher-set royalties. The situation of copies placed
On Reserve for a course does not fit easily into the context of
either of these this mechanisms, but appears more as an area of
overlap.

We are actively working on procedures appropriate to this situation;
we are interested in your help. We are getting calls about this
reserve room photocopies; something similar may have come up in your
experience. Towards developing a useful and rational policy for
this, would you share your thoughts on these two questions:

        How, and in what in what context (for supplementary course
        materials, required materials, or both) do libraries obtain
                permission for reserve copying now?

        What kinds of reserve copying are libraries *not* able to
        report to CCC that you would like to?

Thank you for any input. I would suggest replying to this forum for
broad discussion of the associated issues; reply to this account
for direct replies to my questions, sending flames, etc.

Finally, I expect that the main discussion of this will occur
on the CIRCPLUS list; however, I am crossposting to a few other
lists in the hope of broadening the base of input. Sorry for
any unwanted repetition.

Dave Davis, MSLS '82            Senior Account Specialist,
                                CCC/TRS (508-750-4283 x217)
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