These experiences were real eye-openers. Publishers by and large are very wary of electonic uses of their works and they have very narrow ideas about the scope of fair use. It is amazing that publishers and users are able to come to any agreement concerning the scope of fair use in the electronic environment and not at all surprising that their agreements describe a very narrow scope. What is surprising is the relative lack of awareness of what is fair use on campus.
Most users really have no idea at all.
Compliance strategies Our first strategy for complying with copyright law must be educating our faculty, staff and students to be better consumers of copyrighted materials, more responsible in their use of others' works and careful in their exercise of statutory exemptions. But we also must make it easier for faculty, staff and students to get permission to make uses of others' works when statutory exemptions do not apply. We must establish quick, easy and reliable links with copyright clearance centers, negotiate blanket licenses where they would be advantageous and begin to acquire access in digital materials that is sufficient to obviate the need for additional permissions to use such licensed electronic information. In addition, we must consider becoming more involved in the management of the copyrighted works created on our campuses. The manner and means of access to and use of copyrighted works is undergoing dramatic change that will only accelerate in pace in the years to come.