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Re: [Phys-L] Textbooks that no longer be found.

The Educational Fair Use clause gives you permission to use a ‘small’ portion of a text ‘spontaneously' for a couple of years. But it still requires you to make a good faith effort to obtain permission of the copyright holder. The intent is to grant protection for schools who use some material spontaneously. And it grants your institution some protection for the use of material where the copyright holder is unreachable or has abandoned any claim.

Paul

On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:47 PM, Richard Heckathorn <geepaw@wowway.com> wrote:

With the advent of good scanners, can one legally scan a textbook that can no longer be found into searchable pdf format and make it digitally available for use by students in a classroom?

Dick