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17 U.S.C. § 106 — Exclusive rights in copyrighted works
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Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
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Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
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Except as otherwise provided in this title, as used in this title, the following terms and their variant forms mean the following:
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Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, the following are not infringements of copyright:
(1) performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction, unless, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, the performance, or the display of individual images, is given by means of a copy that was not lawfully made under this title, and that the person responsible for the performance knew or had reason to believe was not lawfully made;
(2) except with respect to a work produced or marketed primarily for performance or display as part of mediated instructional activities transmitted via digital networks, or a performance or display that is given by means of a copy or phonorecord that is not lawfully made and acquired under this title, and the transmitting government body or accredited nonprofit educational institution knew or had reason to believe was not lawfully made and acquired, the performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work or reasonable and limited portions of any other work, or display of a work in an amount comparable to that which is typically displayed in the course of a live classroom session, by or in the course of a transmission, if—
(A) the performance or display is made by, at the direction of, or under the actual supervision of an instructor as an integral part of a class session offered as a regular part of the systematic mediated instructional activities of a governmental body or an accredited nonprofit educational institution;
(B) the performance or display is directly related and of material assistance to the teaching content of the transmission;
(C) the transmission i
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**(a) Establishment and maintenance in Library of Congress; purpose; determination of composition, cataloging, indexing and availability by Librarian** The Librarian of Congress (hereinafter referred to as the “Librarian”) shall establish and maintain in the Library of Congress a library to be known as the American Television and Radio Archives (hereinafter referred to as the “Archives”). The purpose of the Archives shall be to preserve a permanent record of the television and radio programs which are the heritage of the people of the United States and to provide access to such programs to historians and scholars without encouraging or causing copyright infringement.
(1) The Librarian, after consultation with interested organizations and individuals, shall determine and place in the Archives such copies and phonorecords of television and radio programs transmitted to the public in the United States and in other countries which are of present or potential public or cultural interest, historical significance, cognitive value, or otherwise worthy of preservation, including copies and phonorecords of published and unpublished transmission programs—
(A) acquired in accordance with sections 407 and 408 of title 17; and
(B) transferred from the existing collections of the Library of Congress; and
(C) given to or exchanged with the Archives by other libraries, archives, organizations, and individuals; and
(D) purchased from the owner thereof.
(2) The Librarian shall maintain and publish appropriate catalogs and indexes of the collections of the Archives, and shall make such collections available for study and research under the conditions prescribed under this section.
**(b) Reproduction, compilation, and distribution for research of regularly scheduled newscasts
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TITLE 17—COPYRIGHTS
§ 106
cerned, the Government could not restrain the em-
ployee or official from disseminating the work if he or
she chooses to do so. The use of the term ‘‘work of the
United States Government’’ does not mean that a work
falling within the definition of that term is the prop-
erty of the U.S. Government.
LIMITED EXCEPTION FOR NATIONAL TECHNICAL
INFORMATION SERVICE
At the House hearings in 1975 the U.S. Department of
Commerce called attention to its National Technical
Information Service (NTIS), which has a statutory
mandate, under Chapter 23 [§ 1151 et seq.] of Title 15 of
the U.S. Code, to operate a clearinghouse for the collec-
tion and dissemination of scientific, technical and engi-
neering information. Under its statute, NTIS is re-
quired to be as self-sustaining as possible, and not to
force the general public to bear publishing costs that
are for private benefit. The Department urged an
amendment to section 105 that would allow it to secure
copyright in NTIS publications both in the United
States and abroad, noting that a precedent exists in the
Standard Reference Data Act (15 U.S.C. § 290(e) [§ 290e]).
In response to this request the Committee adopted a
limited exception to the general prohibition in section
105, permitting the Secretary of Commerce to ‘‘secure
copyright for a limited term not to exceed five years,
on behalf of the United States as author or copyright
owner’’ in any NTIS publication disseminated pursuant
to 15 U.S.C. Chapter 23 [§ 1151 et seq.]. In order to ‘‘se-
cure copyright’’ in a work under this amendment the
Secretary would be required to publish the work with
a copyright notice, and the five-year term would begin
upon the date of first publication.
Proposed Saving Clause. Section 8 o
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