Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001

Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001 - Revises Federal copyright law to extend the exemption from infringement liability for instructional broadcasting to digital distance learning or distance education. Allows under specified conditions: (1) the performance and display of reasonable and limited portions of any copyrighted work; (2) the reproduction of such work in transient copies or phonorecords created as a part of the automatic technical process of a digital transmission; and (3) distribution of such copies or phonorecords in the course of such transmission, to the extent technologically necessary.

Revises the conditions of such transmission to: (1) require the performance or display to be made by or at the direction of an instructor as an integral part of a class session; (2) limit its reception to students officially enrolled in the course for which it is made or officers or employees of governmental bodies as part of their official duties or employment; (3) require transient copies to be retained for no longer than reasonably necessary to complete the transmission; and (4) require the transmitting body or institution to take specified actions to provide copyright protection of such works.

Extends the current ephemeral recording exemption, under specified conditions, to copies or phonorecords embodying a performance or display in digital form for use in making transmissions authorized by this Act.