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March 17, 1999
Issue 42
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Legislation
Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters to Testify on H.R. 354, the
"Collections of Information Antipiracy Act."

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----------------Legislation----------------

REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS MARYBETH PETERS TO TESTIFY
ON H.R. 354, THE "COLLECTIONS OF INFORMATION ANTIPIRACY ACT"
On March 18 at 11 a.m. in Room 2226 of the Rayburn House Office Building
in Washington, D.C., Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters will testify
on H.R. 354, the "Collections of Information Antipiracy Act," a bill to
amend title 17, U.S.C., to provide protection for certain collections of
information.


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* CALENDAR *
April 1: Reply comments due on interim regulations on requirements by
which a copyright owner or its agent may provide notice to libraries and
archives that a published work in the final 20 years of its extended
term of copyright is subject to normal commercial exploitation or that a
copy or phonorecord of the work can be obtained at a reasonable price
(63 FR 71785)

April 5: Reply comments due on the proposed amendments to the
regulations governing royalty distribution and rate adjustment
proceedings prescribed by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal Reform Act of
1993 (64 FR 3055 and 64 FR 3746).

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