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DTIC defines itself as a repository and secondary distributor. By our own definition, we are not a library” or eductional institution as defined under Section 108 of the Copyright Act. We serve profit making entities and have no knowledge of the user’s purpose of the documents we supply.
We determined the First Sale rather than Fair Use doctrine applies to our distribution of copyrighted works. The First Sale doctrine allows the owner of a particular lawfully-made physical copy of a work to dispose of it in any manner with certain exceptions without infringing on the copyright owner’s exclusive bundle of rights. Note here that the copyright owner parts company with a tangible copy only. If you own a first sale copy, you can permanently add it to a collection or loan it, but you do not have the right to make copies and retain the original without authoriztion or permission.
Although, DTIC does not distribute for direct or indirect commercial advantage and is a not-for-profit government appropriated-funded operation, we do systematically reproduce and distribute facsimilies or exact copies of the materials in our collection.
