Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 4, #24, June 24, 1998 (fwd)
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:59:21 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130505b1b72651f2b7@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:59:21 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 4, #24, June 24, 1998 (fwd)
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 24, 1998
HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE POSTPONES CONSIDERATION
OF THE DIGITAL COPYRIGHT BILL
>Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Page Miller <pagem@CapAccess.org>
>To: ncc-updates
>Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 4, #24, June 24, 1998 (fwd)
>
>NCC Washington Update, vol. 4, #24, June 24, 1998
> by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating
> Committee for the Promotion of History <pagem@capaccess.org>
>
>>SNIP<<<<<<<<
>2. House Commerce Committee Postpones Consideration of The Digital
>Copyright Bill -- Although the House Commerce Committee had scheduled for
>June 23 consideration of H.R. 2281, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
>of 1998, the Committee decided at the last minute to pull that bill from
>day's agenda. On June 17 when the House Commerce Committee's Subcommittee
>on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection marked-up this bill,
>Representatives Scott Klug (R-WI) and Rick Boucher (D-VA) introduced an
>amendment that would clarify that the copyright provision of "fair use"
>applied to the digital world. After listening to a number of conflicting
>views on this amendment, Subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-LA) asked
>the Chair of the Commerce Committee, Representative Tom Bliley (R-VA), to
>work with the content providers and the users on a compromise amendment
>that would deal with concerns about "fair use." These negotiations,
>however, did not produce a substitute amendment that was acceptable to
>both the user and the creator communities. The Commerce Committee has
>received an extension on the time for their consideration of this bill,
>and they anticipate taking it up soon after Congress returns on July 14
>from the July 4 recess.
>
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