'Fair Use', Contu Guidelines, Confu Guidelines and the DMCA

Copyright Acts and their implications are more known through word of mouth than personally reading the complex legal texts. As a result, lot of myths surrounds the knowledge of the users and libraries about infringement of copyright acts. Many are scared by the warning note printed almost indiscriminately by the publishers on verso of title pages of the books. There are others equally quite careless and boldly keep infringing copyright act.