Copyright Issue Update

This is an update from yesterday's copyright issue.

After talking with a lawyer in the General Cousel's Office, we decided that digitizing and providing a digital copy via ILL for research purposes only was a permissable use of the dissertation recording under the contract doctoral students sign for their dissertation (according to a university policy), and fair use laws. The lawyer also said that the policy we consulted for the use of doctoral dissertations was a bit ambiguous, had not been updated in a few years, and she would work with the Dean of Graduate Studies to update this policy to account for the advances in technology and the University's use of technology to distribute dissertations.

Our Archives will have to work on a new policy for this new procedure.