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Copyright Questions and Answers for Information Professionals: From the Columns of Against the Grain by Laura N. Gasaway (review)

The title of this book describes exactly what it does and how it originated. Laura Gasaway, whose background as both librarian and law professor makes her uniquely qualified to be the author of such a book, has been answering questions submitted by readers of Against the Grain (a journal that was started as a companion to the annual Charleston Conference run for over thirty years by Katina Strauch, who provides a Foreword to this book) for more than fifteen years. This book is a compilation of readers’ questions and her answers organized by topic, briefly introduced with her contextual commentary and supplemented by a well-prepared nineteen-page index. As the author herself advises, the book can be read straight through, or it can simply be used sporadically as a reference whenever the reader confronts a copyright conundrum beyond the reader’s ability to resolve without some guidance from an expert. To make the book work best as a reference, the answers provided are more or less self-contained so that the reader seldom needs to consult another Q&A in order to feel properly guided. This is a strength of the book but also a weakness, as it results in repetition of some information, which makes the book somewhat less enjoyable as a work to read from cover to cover. However, given the necessity of compromise here, the author has chosen the right balance between utility and readability. No book written about an area of the law as contentious as copyright is going to have all readers agree with the author at every point, but for this reviewer there was very little to disagree with. On a few occasions, the book might have benefited from some additional explanation. For example, in the answer to Q55 about reproducing advertisements in a scholarly work for critique and comment, it might have been helpful to refer not only to fair use but also to copyright notice because, as Nimmer