Faculty compliance in educational photocopying

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of the type of college and university faculty and their compliance with the copyright fair use criteria and their perceptions of copyright restrictions. Hypotheses were constructed to test for significant differences between public and private college and university faculty.;A random selection of 350 colleges or universities was made. These institutions were considered to be public or private and had an enrollment of between 4,000-10,000. College catalogs on microfiche were used to select five full-time teaching faculty members from each institution, each of the five fitting into one of the five categories--business; education and psychology; fine arts and humanities; social science; and science, medicine, and technology.;The Statistical Package for Social Science programs (SPSS) was used to analyze the survey questions. They were measured by frequencies, percentages, chi-square values, degrees of freedom, and significance. Chi-square tests were used to determine whether the faculty responses were related to the type of institution. The significance level of.05 was selected for acceptance of the hypotheses and research question.;There was no significant difference between the type of institution and faculty compliance with the copyright fair use criteria. The null hypothesis of no difference was accepted.;There was no significant difference between the type of institution and reasons for discontinuing using photocopied course anthologies or photocopies of copyrighted materials for classroom teaching. The null hypotheses of no significant difference were accepted.;There was no significant difference between the type of institution and faculty perceptions of copyright restrictions. The null hypothesis of no significant difference was accepted.