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2 U.S. Code § 170 - American Television and Radio Archives
(a) Establishment and maintenance inLibrary of Congress; purpose; determination of composition, cataloging, indexing and availability by LibrarianTheLibrarian ofCongress (hereinafter referred to as the“Librarian”) shall establish and maintain in theLibrary 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) TheLibrarian, 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significance, cognitive value, or otherwise worthy of preservation, including copies and phonorecords of published and unpublished transmission programs—
(2)
TheLibrarian 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 or on-the-spot coverage of news events by Librarian; promulgation of regulationsNotwithstanding the provisions ofsection 106 of title 17, the Librarianis authorized with respect to a transmission program which consists of a regularly scheduled newscast or on-the-spot coverage of news events and, under standards and conditions that the Librarianshall prescribe by regulation—
(1)
to reproduce a fixation of such a program, in the same or another tangible form, for the purposes of preservation or security or for distribution under the conditions of clause (3) of this subsection; and
(2)
to compile, without abridgment or any other editing, portions of such fixations according to subject matter, and to reproduce such compilations for the purpose of clause (1) of this subsection; and
(c) Liability for copyright infringement by Librarian or any employee of Librarian
TheLibrarian or any employee of the Library who is acting under the authority of this section shall not be liable in any action for copyright infringement committed by any other person unless theLibrarian or such employee knowingly participated in the act of infringement committed by such person. Nothing in this section shall be construed to excuse or limit liability under title 17 for any act not authorized by that title or this section, or for any act performed by a person not authorized to act under that title or this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effectiveJan. 1, 1978, seesection 102 of Pub. L. 94–553, set out as a note precedingsection 101 of Title 17, Copyrights.
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| 36 | 705 |