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Chapter Five. The Library Exemption (Section 108)

After writing that section 108 struck the appropriate balance between the rights of creators and the needs of users, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued:

The House Judiciary Committee’s Report, submitted nine months after the Senate Report, noted the “storm of controversy” provoked by the addition of subsection (g)(2) proscribing the “systematic reproduction or distribution of single or multiple copies or phonorecords,” and that 108(g)(2) was then amended to include the proviso “that nothing in this clause prevents a library or archives from participating in interlibrary arrangements that do not have, as their purpose or effect, that the library or archives receiving such copies or phonorecords for distribution does so in such aggregate quantities as to substitute for a subscription to or purchase