Question about scanning (short story project)

For the stories in Young Wolfe and the shorter uncollected stories that are not online, I would be willing to scan these and send them to off list requests for our continuing chronological discussion IF THIS WAS LEGAL and for private, non-profit use for the purpose of our discussion. I would not post these online, nor would I send them to anyone who did not request it privately from my email. Nor would I scan any that were included in widely published Wolfe anthologies like Island of Doctor Death, etc., only the uncollected ones. My question to the list is - is this legal? if it is private correspondence between colleagues and is not released for any sort of profit?

Marc Try this checklist: http://copyright.cornell.edu/policies/docs/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf I think you're OK.

Excellent. I think so too, especially for the works that are long out of print and generally unavailable. when (or if, but I fancy when) we get to 1999 then I will perhaps stop and reevaluate, since those stories are at least sometimes still in print. So the way I would like to handle this is that I will scan a few at a time before discussion, and send them to those who request it. We will make it an opt in/ opt out, after you request it I will continue to send it to you until you say, no more scans, please. Send requests to be included to my private e-mail, marcaramini at yahoo.com. I will try to get on this ASAP. No stories collected in any of the Tor collections will be included or reproduced; you are all on your own for those ones. I appreciate everyone's input so far - it will get much more exciting when we reach 1970 and Wolfe suddenly became a super talented, fully developed adult writer of short stories!