2 U.S.C. § 170: American Television and Radio Archives

acquired in accordance with sections 407 and 408 of title 17; and transferred from the existing collections of the Library of Congress; and given to or exchanged with the Archives by other libraries, archives, organizations, and individuals; and purchased from the owner thereof. The Librarian shall maintain and publish appropriate catalogs and indexes of the collections of the Archives, and shall make such collections available for study and research under the conditions prescribed under this section. to reproduce a fixation of such a program, in the same or another tangible form, for the purposes of preservation or security or for distribution under the conditions of clause (3) of this subsection; and to compile, without abridgment or any other editing, portions of such fixations according to subject matter, and to reproduce such compilations for the purpose of clause (1) of this subsection; and by loan to a person engaged in research; and for deposit in a library or archives which meets the requirements of section 108(a) of title 17 , The Librarian or any employee of the Library who is acting under the authority of this section shall not be liable in any action for copyright infringement committed by any other person unless the Librarian or such employee knowingly participated in the act of infringement committed by such person. Nothing in this section shall be construed to excuse or limit liability under title 17 for any act not authorized by that title or this section, or for any act performed by a person not authorized to act under that title or this section. This section may be cited as the “American Television and Radio Archives Act”.