[Michlib-l] Digital Access to WSJ Copyright Question

[Robert P. Holley]

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.html

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 at wayne.edu

phone: 248-547-0306



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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 at loutitlibrary.org
<mailto:bknight at louitlibrary.org>

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