Comments on: The annoying side of copyright or why I’m annoyed with Harvard Business School. http://libraryattack.com/?p=56 "Everybody's a cwitic." (I said that when I was 3.) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Harvard Business School open access policy « Bibliographic Wilderness http://libraryattack.com/?p=56&cpage=1#comment-616 Harvard Business School open access policy « Bibliographic Wilderness Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:30:01 +0000 http://libraryattack.com/?p=56#comment-616 [...] (and especially HBR Case Studies) are known to be some of the strictest publishers around when it comes to controlling their intellectual property. They try not to allow any library [...] [...] (and especially HBR Case Studies) are known to be some of the strictest publishers around when it comes to controlling their intellectual property. They try not to allow any library [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Rochkind http://libraryattack.com/?p=56&cpage=1#comment-148 Jonathan Rochkind Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:32:46 +0000 http://libraryattack.com/?p=56#comment-148 I'm curious to know more about this. Were you trying to purchase a paper copy, or an electronic copy? If a paper copy, I am not a lawyer, but I don't believe they can actually prohibit a library from buying it and lending it. Of course, I suppose they can refuse to sell it to you if they know you are a library. But if they sell a paper copy to an individual, I believe that individual has the legal right to re-sell it to a library, and that library has a legal right to lend it out to their patrons. But I could be wrong. But if I were you, I'd check with university/library counsel, and then just buy one individually and re-sell the used copy to the library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine I’m curious to know more about this. Were you trying to purchase a paper copy, or an electronic copy?

If a paper copy, I am not a lawyer, but I don’t believe they can actually prohibit a library from buying it and lending it. Of course, I suppose they can refuse to sell it to you if they know you are a library. But if they sell a paper copy to an individual, I believe that individual has the legal right to re-sell it to a library, and that library has a legal right to lend it out to their patrons.

But I could be wrong. But if I were you, I’d check with university/library counsel, and then just buy one individually and re-sell the used copy to the library.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

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