The following safeguards are in effect to ensure that the California State
University, Northridge, Oviatt Library Course Reserve Services is in compliance
with the United States Copyright Law (U.S.C. 17).
- Only materials currently in use by teachers and students in a class
at the University are made available electronically.
- Access to electronic reserves is granted only after two levels of
authentication. The first verifies that the user is a currently enrolled
CSUN student. The second verifies that they are enrolled in the class
in which the electronic reserves are available.
- Students are shown the the following statement before access is
granted:
Pursuant to the federal Copyright Act (Title 17 of the United
States Code), it is preemptively unlawful to reproduce, distribute,
or publicly display any copyrighted work (or any substantial portion
thereof) without the permission of the copyright owner. The statute,
however, recognizes a fair use defense that has the effect of excusing
an act of copyright infringement. It is the intention of the Library
to act within the parameters of the fair use defense in allowing limited
posting of copyrighted materials in Electronic Course Reserve areas
such as this one. It is the intention of the Library, moreover, that
such materials be made available solely for the purposes of private
study, scholarship, and research, and that any further reproduction
of such materials by students, by printing or downloading, be limited
to such purposes. Any further reproduction of copyrighted materials
made from this computer system may be in violation of copyright laws
and is prohibited.
- Access to electronic reserve materials is limited to the one semester
the course is being taught. Once the course has ended, materials are
deleted from the Library system.
Further information on electronic reserves and fair use may be found
at the American Library Association, Association of College and Research
Libraries statement
on fair use and electronic reserves page .
