RE: Librarians and their institutional attorneys

["T Scott Plutchak" <tscott@uab.edu>]

Outside of routine licensing review, the two areas that we've 
been working with our legal counsel on have to do with 1) 
copyright policy and interpretation -- i.e., trying to devise 
"official" UAB answers to the typical questions that faculty 
have; and 2) trying to sort through the relevant legal status of 
affiliates -- for example, UAB has entered into management 
agreements with several local hospitals -- are those agreements 
structured in such a way that the employees of those hospitals 
are now covered by our licenses or do we have to negotiate 
separate exceptions for them, and how can we craft the legal 
language of those agreements to make it all as easy as possible 
for everybody?

Scott

T. Scott Plutchak

Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
tscott@uab.edu