
Internet Archive Releases the Sonny Bono Memorial Collection, a "Last 20" Collection Utili
The U.S. Copyright Act provides a little known and virtually unused exception specifically for libraries and archives. It allows them to reproduce and distribute a work in the last twenty years of its copyright, if there is no normal commercial exploitation of the work and there is no copy of the work available at a reasonable price. This exception resides in Section 108(h) of the U.S. Copyright Act. To use this exception, libraries and archives necessarily have to be able to