On recent issues of this list, a question was raised about permission to use intellectual property.
Orchid society newsletter Editors might be interested to know that Section 107 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act addresses the use of text and graphics from a copyrighted work by non-profit organizations. The gist of the section is: portions of a copyrighted work MAY be reproduced for educational and non-profit use, without obtaining permission. See also page 4, the 4th paragraph from the bottom which mentions the use of graphics. Chapter 1 of the Copyright Law is 78 pages in length, but Section 107 is about one-third of a page in length. It might be wise for newsletter Editors to keep a copy of Section 107 on file. http://www.copyright.gov/ The above URL is the Copyright homepage. Under the heading, About Copyright, click on Copyright Basics. After that page loads, scroll down to the blue link for Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act. With reference to comments made on this list about the American Orchid Society digitizing back issues of the Bulletin/Orchids: it seems unlikely that there would be sufficient, savvy AOS volunteers to accomplish such a feat. The AOS might consider contacting Google and partnering with Google. As many readers of this list surely know, Google will be scanning books from the New York public library and libraries at Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Oxford, and making them available online. Wilella Stimmell _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
