See the section of Douglas Bennett's essay, "Fair Use in Digital Environments," that explains CONFU (the Conference on Fair Use).
Also see "A Review of the Conference on Fair Use and Proposed Guidelines," a personal account by Virginia M.G. Hall and Kathe Albrecht, for the members of the Visual Resources Association, published in February 1997.
And see the section, "The CONFU Process" from the December 1996 "Interim Report" on the Conference on Fair Use by Peter Fowler.