Re: AIS Copyrighted Material

[Judy Keisling <keisling@swbell.net>]

Have been reading this thread for the past few days.

I agree with Tom Gormley
- we could nitpick this to death and even perhaps come 
up with "guidelines"
that would be detrimental to the AIS education programs.

Case in point - the
copyright in the front of the JT Handbook and Basic Iris 
Culture reads (BIC
has copyright date of 2011):
Copyright  2007 by The American AIS Society. All
rights reserved. No part of 
this book may be reproduced without permission,
in writing, by The American Iris 
Society except by a reviewer who wishes to
quote brief passages in connection 
with a review for inclusion in a magazine
or newspaper.
 
Taken this literally, this would mean that no AIS
Judge/Instructor could copy 
any of the pages to use in a training session;
likewise could not be copied 
verbatim into a PPT program in JT classes. I
have attended several training 
sessions where a page (or pages) have been
copied to give to students and/or 
used in a PPT program.  I don't think this
is uncommon.  I doubt that any of 
these instructors asked permission from
anyone in AIS - 

 
I know nothing about copyright law - but the Doctrine of
Fair Use as described 
by Bob Pries should cover my concerns since it seems to
specifically cover 
educational purposes.
 
I would be more concerned about
individuals and/or entities outside of AIS and 
its affiliates and members
using our materials without requesting permission, 
although it's unclear from
whmo they would seek permission.
 
Judy
 



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Sent: Thu, May 30, 2013 11:54:35 AM
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[AISdiscuss] AIS Copyrighted Material

All,

The American Iris Society has
much information and data that is
copyrighted.  We have recently sent a "cease
and desist" letter from our
Legal
Counsel to Longfield Gardens, LLC, Lakewood,
NJ for unauthorized use of  AIS
copyrighted material with iris sales packages
at a COSTCO in  California.

In addition, various members of AIS have received
requests to use and
reproduce AIS copyrighted materials.  My questions to the
Board are:  Who
should be designated to give approval to use our materials? 
Should we  have
an
internal approval process or not?  I don't believe just
"anyone" or  everyone
should have such authority.  Should the approval point
be the  President
and Legal Counsel or the Public Relations Chairman?  Most
of  you know that I
already have plenty on my plate.  As an example I just 
received a request
from Missouri Botanical Garden where Jean and  I volunteer
as follows:

Jim,
I plan on  uploading the iris images I have taken into the
gardenbs (MOBOT)
database which will be accessible to the  public.  Each taxon
has a field
to describe the plant.  I want to  propose to plant records that
we put the
iris registry information in that  field.  First I would need
permission to
use the AIS copyrighted  information from someone within the
organization.
Who should I  contact?
Gary
Your opinions and quick feedback 
would be appreciated.

Jim Morris
President
American Iris  Society
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