Photocopying of library materials is allowed only within the scope permitted by the Copyright Act.
Please read the following before making copies.
 

Scope of Permissible Copying

• Only make copies for your own research or study.
• Only a single copy of a part of a work may be made. (In general, this means no more than half of the work.)
• Article published in periodicals may be copied in full after the next issue is out, or three months after the publication date.
• Only a single copy per person can be provided.

Copyright Protection Term

• Works by individual authors are protected until 70 years after the author's death.
• Works published under a corporate or organizational name are protected until 70 years after publication.

* When the copyright protection term has expired, the entire work may be copied.
* Works by authors who died before 1967, or works published under a corporate name before 1967, are no longer protected by copyright.
 

Copyrighted Works and Their Units

Copyrighted works include materials created through original expression, such as texts, academic papers, articles, photographs, illustrations, maps, and musical scores.
The unit of a “single copyrighted work” for photocopying purposes is defined as follows, for example:
 

• For books written by a single author, the entire book is regarded as one work, and no more than half may be copied.
• For edited volumes, anthologies, or books with multiple authors, each chapter, article, or short work is treated as an individual work, and up to half of each work may be copied.