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Article: Determining Fair Price.(for replacement works under Section 108(c) of the Copyright Act)(Brief Article)
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- November 1, 1999
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Under certain conditions libraries are permitted to reproduce library materials in order to replace lost, damaged, stolen, deteriorating, or obsolete works in their collections. There is no permission for libraries to photocopy or scan works that do not exist in the library's collection. In other words, Section 108(c) of the Copyright Act is not a collection-building statute, but instead is a replacement section.
The statute provides that if a library has a work in its collection and that work becomes lost, damaged, stolen, or is deteriorating, the library may, after it determines by reasonable investigation that an unused copy may not be obtained at a fair ...