Copyright Consultation
The LLA follows all laws and agreements applicable to
copyrighted materials. The LLA will reproduce materials only if no
copyright restriction applies or if the person requesting a copy has
provided explicit permission from the copyright holder. If you are not
sure about the copyright status of an item you wish to duplicate,
please talk to one of the LLA managers.
If instructors wish to provide their students with personal
copies of audio tapes assigned for their classes, the following
guidelines apply:
1. If you record your own "homemade" cassettes, the LLA staff
will ask you for written permission to make copies for your students or
for others.
2. If the lessons you assign are from a commercial publisher,
you are required to obtain permission in order to have copies made. The
LLA can provide you with a blank form for the purpose.
 Download a sample of
a copyright permission form as a PDF(PortableDocument Format) file
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read a PDF file.
3. Note that any permission you provide us needs to specify
several criteria:
- what category of persons may have copies (e.g., students
only or all patrons of the LLA),
- whether users may keep a complete set of lesson materials,
- whether users may make further copies from their personal
tapes. (Some copyright holders require users to sign a statement
pledging not to copy tapes further.)
4. The master copies of all lesson tapes must reside in the
Labs during the period that the staff is providing personal copies for
students. Instructors may also receive one free copy of each original
tape for use in class. At the completion of the course, we encourage
instructors to archive original tapes at the LLA for safety. However,
if the master tapes are returned to the instructor, all tape copies in
the LLA will be destroyed and the free copies that the instructor has
received should be returned to the LLA.
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