ABSTRACT
As an initial participant in the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU)2 that has been meeting in Washington, D.C. since September 1994 under the auspices of the United States Department of Commerce, I have been asked to comment on that process as well as provide a more general discussion on issues relating to the fair use of digital image archives for teaching, scholarship, and criticism in the context of the National Information Infrastructure. To do so, it is necessary to begin with a brief discussion of copyright basics.
