Warning: A Copyright Policy Isn’t Enough!

If you are still wondering where your photocopying or course pack business has gone, some of it remains with the campus copy centers, provided by the loyal, law-abiding faculty members who prefer the traditional print course anthology. Some of the business has migrated to your library’s electronic course reserve service—especially since so many journals are providing access via electronic databases licensed through libraries and corporations. Still more has fallen off the radar screen—taken into the hands of individual instructors who post copyrighted works (not only their own) to course management systems and personal Web sites. Usually not condoned by the university’s administration, it is this unsupervised activity that seems most problematic for the publishers.