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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2051. Implementation of the Agreement; executive designation and duty of Federal agencies
The President of the United States is authorized to designate a
Federal agency or agencies which shall be responsible for carrying
out the provisions of the Agreement for Facilitating the
International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character and a related
protocol of signature, opened for signature at Lake Success on July
15, 1949 (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the
"Agreement"). It shall be the duty of the Federal agency or
agencies so designated to take appropriate measures for the
carrying out of the provisions of the Agreement including the
issuance of regulations. In carrying out this section, such Federal
agency or agencies may not consider visual or auditory material to
fail to qualify as being of international educational character -
(1) because it advocates a particular position or viewpoint,
whether or not it presents or acknowledges opposing viewpoints;
(2) because it might lend itself to misinterpretation, or to
misrepresentation of the United States or other countries, or
their people or institutions;
(3) because it is not representative, authentic, or accurate or
does not represent the current state of factual knowledge of a
subject or aspect of a subject unless the material contains
widespread and gross misstatements of fact;
(4) because it does not augment international understanding and
goodwill, unless its primary purpose or effect is not to instruct
or inform through the development of a subject or an aspect of a
subject and its content is not such as to maintain, increase, or
diffuse knowledge; or
(5) because in the opinion of the agency the material is
propaganda.
Such Federal agency or agencies may not label as propaganda any
material that receives a certificate of international educational
character under this section and the Agreement.
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