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ILL Copyright Information

  • Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.
  • Placing article/chapter requests through your ILLiad account implies that your request is in copyright compliance. 
  • Requestors are responsible for compliance with the copyright law and the CONTU Guidelines 
  • The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.
  • The full text of the copyright law can be found in the United States Code in the section entitled Title 17 - Copyright 
  • For more information, please visit UNLV Copyright Information site and Copyright Office, Library of Congress.  

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

 
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