Subject: AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CALL TO ACTION ON COPYRIGHT BILL
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:54:10 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011707b2355fe60a64@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:54:10 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CALL TO ACTION ON COPYRIGHT BILL
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
September 28, 1998
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CALL TO ACTION ON COPYRIGHT BILL
Senate/House Conference Committee Reports This Week
I'm forwarding the ALA Call for Responses to the current WIPO Copyright
Bill now before the conference committee. The two principal issues are that
the resultant bill a) should keep the House version's protection of Fair
Use (the Senate version had no such protection) and b) that it drop the
added "database protection" legislation.
David Green
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>Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:29:06 -0400
>From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL (ALAWASH E-MAIL)" <ALAWASH@alawash.org>
>To: ALA Washington Office Newsline <ala-wo@ala1.ala.org>
>Subject: ALAWON v. 7, n. 113 - URGENT ! ACTION NEEDED - COPYRIGHT IN
> FINAL STAGES
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>ALAWON Volume 7, Number 113
>ISSN 1069-7799 September 28, 1998
>
> American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
>
>In this issue: (102 lines)
>
>- URGENT!!!
> HELP PRESERVE THE FUTURE OF FAIR USE AND DATABASE ACCESS:
> IT'S "NOW OR (PERHAPS) NEVERMORE" . . .
>_________________________________________________________________
>
> HELP PRESERVE THE FUTURE OF FAIR USE AND DATABASE ACCESS:
> IT'S "NOW OR (PERHAPS) NEVERMORE" . . .
>
>Thanks to those of you who have responded to the Washington
>Office's latest copyright legislation alert (ALAWON vol. 7, #106,
>Sept. 15, 1998) by contacting Congress. It's official. The
>"Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (H.R. 2281) is now before a
>Senate/House Conference Committee that's poised to act fast. The
>Committee met for the first time late last Thursday and could
>meet for the **last** time as early as Tuesday, Sept. 29!
>
>Even if you've never contacted Congress before, now is the time
>to phone and fax all members of the Conference Committee listed
>below (especially if you are a constituent) to ask that they:
>
>(1) SUPPORT **no less protection for fair use** than that
>afforded by the House's version of H.R. 2281 (the Senate's
>version contains no fair use protection at all); AND
>
>(2) OPPOSE the inclusion of any "database protection" legislation
>in the final version of the bill (Title V of the House bill
>addresses this issue; the Senate bill is silent).
>
>It's also urgent that both of your Senators -- even though
>neither may be on the Conference Committee -- be asked to contact
>Senate conference committee leaders Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and
>Patrick Leahy (D-VT) immediately to relay the two critical
>messages above. For on-line sample letters, e-mail connections
>to your Members of Congress and more background information,
>please visit the Washington Office Web site at:
>http://congress.nw.dc.us/ala/
>
>With your help this past week, we have made headway, especially
>on the "database protection" front. Senators Burns (R-MT),
>Conrad (D-ND), D'Amato (R-NY), Dorgan (D-ND), Lieberman (D-CT),
>Moynihan (D-NY), Rockefeller (D-WV), Shelby (R-AL), Snowe (R-ME),
>and Wyden (D-OR) all have written to Sens. Hatch and Leahy
>expressing concern that database legislation should not be
>incorporated into the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
>
>If you live in Alabama, Connecticut, Maine, Montana, New York,
>North Dakota, Oregon or West Virginia, please be sure to fax and
>phone your thanks to these Senators right away. They are under
>heavy pressure from database protection proponents to withdraw
>their objections to this seriously flawed legislation. Your
>immediate support and thanks will help them hold the line!
>
> "DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT" CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
>
>SENATE
>
>ST PTY SENATOR PHONE FAX
>SC R Strom Thurmond 224-5972 224-1300
>UT R Orrin G. Hatch, chairman 224-5251 224-6331
>VT D Patrick J. Leahy 224-4242
>
>HOUSE
>ST-DST PTY REPRESENTATIVE PHONE FAX
>CA-26 D Howard L. Berman 225-4695 225-5279
>IL-6 R Henry J. Hyde, chairman 225-4561 225-1166
>LA-3 R W. J. Tauzin 225-4031 225-0563
>MI-14 D John Conyers 225-5126 225-0072
>MI-16 D John D. Dingell 225-4071
>NC-6 R Howard Coble 225-3065 225-8611
>VA-6 R Bob Goodlatte 225-5431 225-9681
>VA-7 R Tom Bliley 225-2815 225-0011
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