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ix Foreword Laura N. “Lolly” Gasaway is the Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor of Law at UNC-Chapel Hill. Copyright is her métier, and she is nationally known. From 2005 to 2008 she was co-chair of an elite nineteen-person task force appointed by the U.S. Copyright Office and the Library of Congress to study section 108 of the Copyright Act and suggest needed changes. I first encountered this amazing woman when I attended one of her famous “copyright for librarians” seminars. I came home with a spiral-bound book full of information about copyright and all kinds of books and articles to read. I also had Lolly’s handy chart, “When U.S. Works Pass into the Public Domain” (http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/ public-d.htm), which she updates as needed. I still have that spiralbound book filled with all sorts of useful notes. It was several years later that my husband and I began Against the Grain (ATG), the periodical which is an outgrowth of the Charleston Conferences. Bruce is a lawyer, but whenever I asked him a question related to copyright he would tell me to ask the real copyright expert, Lolly Gasaway. With all the new happenings in collection development and the emergence of the Internet, more and more questions kept coming up. So, why not ask Lolly to answer a few questions about copyright for ATG readers? She graciously agreed and she has never missed a column since she began writing one over fifteen years ago! I remember the feeling of empowerment I had when people on or off the job would ask me a copyright question. As ATG editor, I would suggest they ask Lolly. A neighbor wanted to know if recipes were copyrightable. A faculty member wanted to know if a facsimile copy of an old work was still under copyright. What about a translation of an ancient work? What about copies of library materials made with a Foreword x patron’s digital camera? Are e-mail messages protected by copyright? Is it infringement for a library to loan a Kindle with e-books on it? Can a U.S. academic institution allow access to its home institution’s materials for students in a study abroad program? Can a faculty member with a Netflix account show movies to students? Can we digitize old masters theses without permission from the author? Could we embed links on our websites? These are just a few of the hundreds of questions that Lolly answers in this essential volume. For nearly two decades Lolly Gasaway has taken the time to answer queries of this nature in her column with untiring knowledge, dedication , energy, organization, and expertise. As Bruce and I looked at the growing body of information, we thought of the need for a book compilation . Again, Lolly graciously agreed. We are excited to offer Lolly’s book as the very first volume in the Purdue University Press Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences series. Katina Strauch Editor, Against the Grain Founder, Charleston Conference ...

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