Publishing Law

[wyse]

I plan to open a business which is basically provinding info on available scholarships for tertiary studies. My question is these info are free but my company will be compiling them , edit , sort and in some cases photostating these brochures on scholarship...sending it to our subsribers for a fee. Is it legal?.Please advice.

[This message has been edited by wyse (edited February 24, 2000).]

 

[Moe from MO]

This is a close question. The existing brochures are probably all copyrighted UNLESS they are in the public domain, like Federal material.

If you copy private copyrighted material -- without the publisher's permission -- it's illegal. The publishers just likely would give permission, but you must ask.