Exemptions and Fair Use in Copyright : The Exclusive Rights Tensions in the 1976 Copyright Act / Leon E. Seltzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seltzer, Leon E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright.

Recht.

Urheberrecht.

Copyright--United States.

Fair use (Copyright)--United States.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

Photocopying--Fair use (Copyright)--United States.

Local Subjects:

Copyright--United States.

Fair use (Copyright)--United States.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

Photocopying--Fair use (Copyright)--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

2nd printing 1979. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After decades of professional dissatisfaction and legislative debate, the Congress in 1976 passed a new copyright act to replace the Copyright Act of 1909. In this book, the author focuses upon the meaning of the "exclusive rights" Constitutional language where writers are concerned, and from his analysis, shows how, when copies of an author's work are made under either the fair-use doctrine or a special exemption for library reproduction of copyrighted works, the 1976 Act has failed to solve old problems and has introduced troublesome new ones. A principal contribution of the book is its analysis of the theoretical foundations of copyright and the establishment of a conceptually coherent framework for the continuing debate on the appropriate limits of copyright protection. Of obvious value to the Copyright Bar and the judiciary, it is also a book that authors, literary agents, and publishers will find they need.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

I. The Nature of the Copyright Scheme

II. The Elements of Fair Use

III. Exemptions from Copyright

IV. The Photocopying Adjustments in Copyright Scheme Dynamics

V. A Functional Approach to Statutory Adjustments in the Copyright Scheme

Appendix A. Copyright Act of 1976, Selected Sections (Public Law 94-553, 94th Cong., October 19, 1976, Title 17 USC)

Appendix Β. Committee Reports on Section 107, Fair Use

Appendix C. Committee Reports on Section 108, Reproduction by Libraries and Archives

Appendix D. 1965 Supplementary Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law, 89th Cong., 1st Sess., Copyright Law Revision, Part 6 (House Judiciary Comm. Print, 1965), pp. 25-28

Appendix Ε. 1935 "Gentlemen's Agreement"

Cases Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-43312-2

OCLC:

1024049734