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- (4) where importation, for use and not for sale, is sought:
- (A) by any person with respect to no more than one copy of any work at any one time;
- (B) by any person arriving from outside the United States, with respect to copies forming part of such person’s personal baggage; or
- (C) by an organization operated for scholarly, educational, or religious purposes and not for private gain, with respect to copies intended to form a part of its library;
- (5) where the copies are reproduced in raised characters for the use of the blind; or
- (6) where, in addition to copies imported under clauses (3) and (4) of this subsection, no more than two thousand copies of any one such work, which have not been manufactured in the United States or Canada, are publicly distributed in the United States; or
- (7) where, on the date when importation is sought or public distribution in the United States is made—
- (A) the author of any substantial part of such material is an individual and receives compensation for the transfer; or license of the right to distribute the work in the United States; and
- (B) the first publication of the work has previously taken place outside the United States under a transfer or license granted by such author to a transferee or licensee who was not a national or domiciliary of the United States or a domestic corporation or enterprise; and
- (C) there has been no publication of an authorized edition of the work of which the copies were manufactured in the United States; and
- (D) the copies were reproduced under a transfer or license granted by such author or by the transferee or licensee of the right of first publication as mentioned in subclause (B), and the tansferee or the licensee of the right of reproduction was not a national or domiciliary of the United States or a domestic corporation or enterprise.
(c) The requirement of this section that copies be manufactured in the United States or Canada is satisfied if—
- (1) in the case where the copies are printed directly from type that has been set, or directly from plates made from such type, the setting of the type and the making of the plates have been performed in the United States or Canada; or
- (2) in the case where the making of plates by a lithographic or photoengraving process is a final or intermediate step preceding the printing of the copies, the making of the plates has been performed in the United States or Canada; and
- (3) in any case, the printing or other final process of producing multiple copies and any binding of the copies have been performed in the United States or Canada.
(d) Importation or public distribution of copies in violation of this section does not invalidate protection for a work under this title. However, in any civil action or criminal proceeding for infringement of the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute copies of the work, the infringer has a complete defense with respect to all of the nondramatic literary material comprised in the work and any other parts of the work in which the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute copies are owned by the same person who owns such exclusive rights in the nondramatic literary material, if the infringer proves—
- (1) that copies of the work have been imported into or publicly distributed in the United States in violation of this section by or with the authority of the owner of such exclusive rights; and
- (2) that the infringing copies were manufactured in the United States or Canada in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c); and
- (3) that the infringement was commenced before the effective date of registration for an authorized edition of the work, the copies of which have been manufactured in the United States or Canada in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c).
(e) In any action for infringement of the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute copies of a work containing material required by this section to be manufactured in the United States or Canada, the copyright owner shall set forth in the complaint the names of the persons or organizations who performed the processes specified by subsection (c) with respect to that material, and the places where those processes were performed.
