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COURSE PACKS: WHY REQUEST ONE IN ADVANCE? AND, WHY THEY TEND
TO BE EXPENSIVE...
There is more to course packs than meets the eye. In accordance with federal law,
copyright permission must be obtained for copyrighted citation included in the
course pack.
This is a process that demands a lot of legwork. Permissions are held either
by publishers or individual authors, and royalties generally must be paid to the rights
holder.
Often, titles rights are sold from one publisher to another or ownership reverts from a
publisher or a succession of
publishers to the author, who is not always easy to locate. The process of tracking
down the copyright holder and then obtaining permission is generally laborious, and many
publishers require as much as eight weeks advance notice of a request for permission to
copy from a work. Obtaining permission for thousands of citations is both time and
labor intensive.
Course pack prices are determined by the cost of publisher royalties plus fees for
photocopying and labor costs associated with obtaining copyright permissions.
Royalties and labor costs very from pack to pack.
While it might seem more expedient to simply copy material without notifying the
author (s) or publisher (s), the work, ideas and intellectual property of
author (s) and publisher (s) must be respected and permission sought to avoid violating copyright laws.
It is essential that you request your course packs at the same time that textbook
information is requested. This leaves us plenty of time to handle any
copyright-related obstacles that arise and helps us to have course packs ready when
students need them.
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