Thank you Owen for your response, some great links here too. Best wishes, Lizelle Smith BA, AdvDipTour, DipLib, AALIA DCP Director of Library and Information Services Suite 18, 7 Aberdeen Street, Perth WA 6000 PO Box D178 Perth BC 6849 T: [ callto:+61 8 6222 4222 | +61 8 6222 4222 ] E: lsmith@sheridan.edu.au l W: [ http://www.sheridan.edu.au/ | www.sheridan.edu.au ] CRICOS No: 03391M. This email and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message . From: "Owen Leonard" <oleonard@myacpl.org> To: "Lizelle Smith" <lsmith@sheridan.edu.au> Cc: "Koha" <Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Tuesday, 9 February, 2021 9:21:46 PM Subject: Re: [Koha] GoogleJackets displaying in OPAC
Just want to confirm that we can use the GoogleJackets to show up in our OPAC? Are there any copyright restrictions?
I don't think anyone on this list has the ability to tell you yes or no from a legal standpoint. From the point of view of US copyright law we would consider the use of book cover images from external services like Google Books to be either allowed under copyright law (depending on your interpretation, e.g. https://www.sidebarsaturdays.com/2017/09/30/httpswp-mep7vddb-w5) or "reasonable risk," e.g. https://librarianwhodoesntsayshhh.com/2014/05/26/book-cover-images-copyright. These links don't point to legal opinions and I'm not offering legal advice. That said, I've never heard of any library getting in trouble for using the GoogleJackets feature. We've been using it and Amazon cover images for years. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries (740) 737-6006 https://www.myacpl.org