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Copyright infringements (audio and video recorders) : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first and second sessions, on S. 1758 ... November 30, 1981 and April 21, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Home video recording : hearing of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on providing information on the issue of home video recording, September 23, 1986. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1987., 1987), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Video and audio home taping : hearing before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eight Congress, first session on S. 31 ... and S. 175 ... October 25, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by Copyrights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
Copyright infringement remedies and nursing home/videocassette copyright : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, on H.R. 671 ... H.R. 3158 ... April 5, 1990. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, U.S. G.P.O., 1990), by Intellectual Property United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Copyright infringements (audio and video recorders) : hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first and second sessions, on S. 1758 ... November 30, 1981 and April 21,1982. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Home video recording : hearing of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on providing information on the issue of home video recording, September 23, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

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Filed under: Fair use (Copyright) -- United States

Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors: Common Scenarios with Guidance from Community Practice (Berkeley: Authors Alliance, c2017), by Brianna Schofield and Robert Kirk Walker (PDF at authorsalliance.org)
Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom (c2011), ed. by Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use (2005), by Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Independent Feature Project, International Documentary Association, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (U.S.), and Women in Film and Video (Washington DC chapter) (PDF with commentary at centerforsocialmedia.org)
Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2005), by Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers (Chicago: Association of College and Resarch Libraries, 2014), by Kevin L. Smith (PDF at ala.org)
The Section 108 Study Group Report: An Independent Report Sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress (2008), by Section 108 Study Group (PDF with commentary at section108.gov)
Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians (Circular 21), by Library of Congress Copyright Office
- PDF at loc.gov
- Gutenberg text
Library reproduction of copyrighted works (17 U.S.C. 108) : report of the Register of Copyrights. ([Library of Congress, Copyright Office], 1983), by Library of Congress Copyright Office and inc King Research (page images at HathiTrust)
Copyright: a librarian's view (Copyright Committee, Association of Research Libraries, 1968), by Verner W. Clapp, Association of Research Libraries. Copyright Committee, and United States. National Advisory Commission on Libraries (page images at HathiTrust)
The Conference on Fair Use : final report to the commissioner on the conclusion of the Conference on Fair Use (Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights of the Information Infrastructure Task Force, 1998), by Bruce A. Lehman, United States Patent and Trademark Office, and United States. Information Infrastructure Task Force. Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on Copyright and digital distance education. (U.S. Copyright Office :, 1999), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Piracy prevention and the broadcast flag : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, March 6, 2003. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Promoting broadband and the digital television transition (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
Fair use : its effects on consumers and industry : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 16, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by Trade United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
Orphan works : proposals for a legislative solution : hearing before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, April 6, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property (page images at HathiTrust)
Digital content and enabling technology : satisfying the 21st century consumer : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, March 29 and May 3, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by Trade United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
Promoting the use of orphan works : balancing the interests of copyright owners and users : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 13, 2008. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Fair Copyright in Research Works Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, on H.R. 6845, September 11, 2008. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Comments of the American Library Association on the report of the register of copyrights to Congress : library reproduction of copyrighted works (17 U.S.C. 108) (The Association, 1983), by American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
Reproduction of copyrighted works by educators and librarians. (Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1991), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Reproduction of copyrighted works by educators and librarians. (Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1992), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Competition and commerce in digital books : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, September 10, 2009. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Fair use and unpublished works : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice of the House Committee on the Judiciary, One Hundred First Congress, second session on S. 2370 and H.R. 4263 ... July 11, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by Copyrights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents and Intellectual Property United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
News monitoring : hearing before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 1805, a bill to amend Title 17, United States Code, to clarify news reporting monitoring as a fair use exception to the exclusive rights of a copyright owner, June 16, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Copyrights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
Copyright, public policy, and the scholarly community (Association of Research Libraries, 1995), by Patricia Brennan, Michael Matthews, and Association of Research Libraries (page images at HathiTrust)
Copyright Amendments Act of 1991 : hearings before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on H.R. 2372 ... May 30, June 6, 12, and 20, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
Fair use guidelines for educational multimedia (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property (page images at HathiTrust)
The state of recorded sound preservation in the United States : a national legacy at risk in the digital age (Council on Library and Information Resources :, 2010), by Samuel Brylawski, Robert Bamberger, and National Recording Preservation Board (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan (Washington, D.C. : Council on Library and Information Resources : Library of Congress, [2012], 2012), by Alan Gevinson, Samuel Brylawski, Brenda Nelson-Strauss, and National Recording Preservation Board (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Ensuring content protection in the digital age : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, April 25, 2002. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (page images at HathiTrust)
Reproduction of copyrighted works by educators and librarians. (Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1995), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Transcript CONTU meeting[s], no. 1-[20]. (National Technical Information Service, 1975), by United States National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (page images at HathiTrust)
CONFU interim report (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, [1996], 1996), by United States. Information Infrastructure Task Force. Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights and Bruce A. Lehman (page images at HathiTrust)
Reproduction of copyrighted works by educators and librarians. (Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1988), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Fair use (Copyright) -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Tales From the Public Domain: Bound by Law? (2006), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (page images with commentary at Duke)

Filed under: Fair use (Copyright) -- United States -- Congresses

CONFU report (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1997), by United States. Information Infrastructure Task Force. Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights and Bruce A. Lehman (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Fair use (Copyright) -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, 2012), contrib. by Association of Research Libraries, American University Center for Social Media, and Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (HTML and PDF with commentary at arl.org)
So What... About Copyright? What Artists Need to Know About Copyright and Trademarks (Washington: Public Knowledge, 2005), ed. by David Bollier, Gigi Bradford, Laurie Racine, and Gigi B. Sohn
- PDF at publicknowledge.org
- multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Fair use (Copyright) -- United States -- States

Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings under State Law and Its Impact on Use by Nonprofit Institutions: A 10-State Analysis (2009), by Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, contrib. by Peter Jaszi and Nicholas B. Lewis (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

Filed under: Copyright and audio-visual education -- United States

The six basic needs of education vs. Public Law 94-553, Copyright Act of 1976 (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, National Medical Audiovisual Center, 1979), by Carl Flint, Marybeth Peters, and National Medical Audiovisual Center (page images at HathiTrust)
Fair use guidelines for educational multimedia (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Copyright and electronic data processing -- United States

Digital Copyright (Maize Books edition, 2017), by Jessica Litman (HTML with commentary at Maize Books)
Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books (2005), by Denise Troll Covey (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
Project Looking Forward: Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World (1998), by I. Trotter Hardy (PDF at LOC; 1.3 MB)
Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- page images at HathiTrust
- PDF files at Princeton
Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy (Washington: National Academies Press, c2013), ed. by Stephen A. Merrill and William J. Raduchel (HTML and PDF at NAP)
The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age (2000), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)
The Section 108 Study Group Report: An Independent Report Sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress (2008), by Section 108 Study Group (PDF with commentary at section108.gov)
An analysis of computer and photocopying copyright issues from the point of the general public and the ultimate consumer (National Technical Information Service, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1977), by Marc Breslow, Larry Haverkamp, Allen R. Ferguson, Public Interest Economics Center, and United States National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (page images at HathiTrust)
Project looking forward : sketching the future of copyright in a networked world : final report, May 1998 (The Office, 1998), by I. Trotter Hardy and Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on Copyright and digital distance education. (U.S. Copyright Office :, 1999), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)
The Copyright Office Report on copyright and digital distance education : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session ... May 25, 1999. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Section 115 of the Copyright Act : in need of an update? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, March 11, 2004. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Digital music licensing and section 115 of the Copyright Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, March 8, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Reforming section 115 of the Copyright Act for the digital age : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, March 22, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Protecting copyright and innovation in a post-Grokster world : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, September 28, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001 : report (to accompany S. 487) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2002), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
OTA report on intellectual property rights in an age of electronics and information : joint hearing, Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and Administration of Justice of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session ... April 16, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by Copyrights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents and Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Intellectual property, domestic productivity and trade : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, July 25, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by Intellectual Property United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
Computers and intellectual property : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first and second sessions, November 8, 1989, and March 7, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by Intellectual Property United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
News monitoring : hearing before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S. 1805, a bill to amend Title 17, United States Code, to clarify news reporting monitoring as a fair use exception to the exclusive rights of a copyright owner, June 16, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Copyrights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
National Information Infrastructure Copyright Protection Act of 1995 : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, on S. 1284 ... May 7, 1996. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 : report together with additional views [to accompany S. 2037]. (U.S. G.P.O., :, 1998), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001 : report (to accompany S. 487). (U.S. G.P.O., 2001), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995 : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2441 and S. 1284 NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995 November 15, 1995. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property and United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Section by section analysis of H.R. 2281 as passed by the United States House of Representatives on August 4, 1998 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1998), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Preliminary report (s.n.], 1976), by United States National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (page images at HathiTrust)
Transcript CONTU meeting no. 13 : [held March 31 and April 1, 1977] (National Technical Information Service, 1977), by United States National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (page images at HathiTrust)
Intellectual property rights in an age of electronics and information : summary (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

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