Exemptions and fair use in copyright : the exclusive rights tensions in the 1976 Copyright act / Leon E. Seltzer.

Exemptions and fair use in copyright : the exclusive rights tensions in the 1976 Copyright act / Leon E. Seltzer.

199 pages ; 24 cm

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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.

"First appeared in the April and June 1977 issues of the Bulletin of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A."
" ... first appeared in the April and June 1977 issues of the "Bulletin of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A." ... "--Preface.
Includes selected sections of the Copyright Act of 1976.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1978.

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