Key Copyright Bills

[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]

If you are concerned about the future of copyright and its impact
on issues such as fair use, the first sale doctrine, digital
preservation, distance education, and user privacy, it is important
to find out more about landmark copyright legislation in the
105th Congress that will have a profound long-term impact on
U.S. libraries.

For a comparison (by the Digital Future Coalition) of House bills
H.R. 3048 (Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act) and H.R. 2281
(WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act), see:

<URL:http://www.dfc.org/issues/wipo/head2hd/head2hd.html>

For a comparison of House bill H.R. 3048 (Digital Era Copyright
Enhancement Act) with Senate bill S. 2037 (Digital Millennium
Copyright Act), see:

<URL:http://www.dfc.org/issues/wipo/DMCanal/dmcanal.html>

For Robert L. Oakley's (Library Director at the Georgetown
University Law Center) related House testimony, see:

<URL:http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/wipotest.html>

For the text of H.R. 2281 (WIPO Copyright Treaties
Implementation Act), see:

<URL:http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281:>

For the text of H.R. 3048 (Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act),
see:

<URL:http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.3048:>

For the text of S. 2037 (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), see:

<URL:http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:s.02037:>

For EFF's action alert with Congressional contact information,
see:

<URL:http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/WIPO/HTML/
19980603_dfc_hr2281_alert.html>

For more information on these bills and other key intellectual
property bills (such as the Collections of Information Antipiracy
Act and Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code), see:

<URL:http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html>

Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems,
University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX
77204-2091.  E-mail: cbailey at uh.edu.  Voice: (713) 743-9804.
Fax: (713) 743-9811.

<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm>
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