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First thing you'll probably want to do is check if the work is public domain (https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain) or not. Second thing is a four-factors analysis like Lena suggested. Speaking as someone who just spent approximately two years as the interim Copyright person, I always took a very generous approach to what is or isn't a fair use. Other countries, ie., Canada, have similar laws: https://copyright.ubc.ca/public-domain/ <https://copyright.ubc.ca/public-domain/#>. So a suggested workflow might be something like: 1. what kind of material is it and was it published here? (different works have different public domain periods) 2. does public domain apply to this work (if yes = approve) 3. does it meet the criteria of a fair use (aka the four factor test---you'd need to crudely suss this out with questions in the submission form)? 4. send to a human to review if it fails at step 3? I don't like the "it uses more than X% of the work" test. It's mostly arbitrary and leads to gaming the system. We used a 25% test even. Only if I couldn't find a way to say "this is a fair use because X, Y, and Z" would I look at the amount. not legal advice/not a lawyer/please don't sue me Elsevier regards, ander kierig On 2021-12-02 at 15:24 (-05:00), Lena Bohman wrote: > So, this may not be the answer you are looking for, but instead of looking > at 10%, you could use the 4 factors to determine fair use: > https://copyright.columbia.edu/basics/fair-use.html > > Lena > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 12:27 PM Julien Tremblay McLellan <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Does anyone have an idea how I can figure out if a scan request is > > compliant when patrons request chapters from a book. > > > > > > We are on Alma but I don't have API access. Looking to hack together a > > script to discover if chapters X and Y are less then 10% of the book. > > > > Any ideas sometimes Amazon and google have the book's table of contents. > > Are there any other tools ? Books range from 1900s to present. > > > > I have page count in the 300 a marc21 tag. > > > > All ideas are welcome I'm a bit stuck. > > >