Digital Access to WSJ Copyright Question
Hello Everyone, We just found out, through some digging, that we have digital access to the WSJ through our print subscription of WSJ that is delivered through the mail. It sounds like it's a single user subscription--there's a single name, email and phone number on the account. We are wondering here at Loutit how much of that access we can share with our patrons. We figure we couldn't give out our login information, but can we at least access old copies of WSJ and print articles for patrons? Would we be running afoul of fair use/copyright by doing this? Any insights or thoughts would be appreciated! Thank You, -- Ben Knight Adult Services Librarian Loutit District Library 407 Columbus Ave. Grand Haven, MI 49417 616-850-6935 bknight@loutitlibrary.org <bknight@louitlibrary.org>
Here is what I found when I searched for the license agreement for the WSJ. http://interactive.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/reprints-wsj-terms.htm... Terms of Use -- WSJ.com<http://interactive.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/reprints-wsj-terms.html> interactive.wsj.com Terms of Use. You may download, reformat and print a limited amount of WSJ.com content for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also include excerpts or limited ... While copyright including fair use applies to print resources, the licensing agreement takes precedence for digital resources. While I'm not a lawyer, I suspect that printing out digital articles would violate these terms of use. You could probably use the digital version to find an article and then copy it from the print version, but I would guess that most libraries discard print copies rather quickly. Bob Dr. Robert P. Holley Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University 13303 Borgman Avenue Huntington Woods, MI 48070-1005 email: aa3805@wayne.edu phone: 248-547-0306 ________________________________ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of Ben Knight via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 11:34 AM To: michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] Digital Access to WSJ Copyright Question Hello Everyone, We just found out, through some digging, that we have digital access to the WSJ through our print subscription of WSJ that is delivered through the mail. It sounds like it's a single user subscription--there's a single name, email and phone number on the account. We are wondering here at Loutit how much of that access we can share with our patrons. We figure we couldn't give out our login information, but can we at least access old copies of WSJ and print articles for patrons? Would we be running afoul of fair use/copyright by doing this? Any insights or thoughts would be appreciated! Thank You, -- Ben Knight Adult Services Librarian Loutit District Library 407 Columbus Ave. Grand Haven, MI 49417 616-850-6935 bknight@loutitlibrary.org <mailto:bknight@louitlibrary.org>
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