Re: Seymour's despised fat Bananafish

> That's going to be difficult if not impossible, but if anyone
>here can help
> you, I'd bet they'd do it offlist (since I'm almost certain
>any electronic
> copies of the stories would be pirated versions).
>
> Good luck with your assignment, although I think you're being
>asked to do
> something that's not quite legal to do without permission.
>You may want to
> bring this up to the instructor.
>
> Jim
>
> SkiFrog717@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Hello fellow salingerians,
>> I was wondering if anyone knew where i coudl get online a
>>print of the 9
>> stories. I'm putting together an anthology for my Short
>>Fiction class with
>> five of the stories, and for the assignment I need to have
>>them included,
>> like typed up. If anyone knows where to get the stories
>>online, ASAP, taht
>> would be a great help!! thanks so much in advance,

Jim's right about the legality. If you are going to use 5 of 9
stories in an anthology, the proper thing (and, honestly, the
RIGHT thing to do to benefit the author) is to add NINE STORIES
to the class reading list for the semester and require that
people buy it. Given the price of textbooks, the low cost of a
mass-market paperback of the stories is a bargain, anyway.

The concept of "fair use" in the US means that if, say, you
wanted to use a paragraph -- or any small excerpt -- you are
permitted to do so without seeking permission or paying for it,
as long as the purpose is educational and meets certain other
rules detailed here:

        http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html

But fair use doesn't allow you to copy 5/9ths of a book's content!

The only legitimate thing to do would be to make it required
reading for the class. Don't feel guilty for making people buy
something that you don't intend to use 100% of in class. It's
done all the time, and most people hit with 5 JDS stories will,
of their own volition, go ahead and read the other 4 you don't
assign.

As for copying and making a class "packet" of required reading:
a former employer of mine was nabbed in this -- many of its
instructors were in the habit of running off copies at the copy
shop known as "Kinko's" -- and was the object of a lawsuit.
Which it lost, big time. The ruling became enshrined in US law
as "the Kinko's case," and it meant that copy shops and
universities have a responsibility that professors may not trash
copyright law in the process of making course packets of
required reading. Instructors either had to buy the work (as
you would if you put NINE STORIES on your list of required
texts) or get permission to reprint the work in question and pay
a royalty.

But if you managed to find a digital copy of the collection, and
you used it, you would be putting yourself and your school up
for some severe punishment, and I'm sure you don't want that!

Cheers,

--tim o'connor
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Received on Sun Mar 23 20:22:50 2003