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Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ARLIS/NA Colleagues -- Reposted from the Digital Future Coalition, DFC. Katy Poole Public Policy Committee ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 17:27:28 -0400 From: "Adam Eisgrau" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Digital Future Coalition Discussion List" <[log in to unmask] rg> Subject: Thanks! Here's the . . . latest alert followed by a brief background paragraph or two; please = repost broadly....: - - URGENT!!! HELP PRESERVE THE FUTURE OF FAIR USE AND DATABASE ACCESS: = IT'S "NOW OR (PERHAPS) NEVERMORE" . . .=20 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. It = could meet for the **last** time as early as Tuesday =20 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:=20 (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 ALA Washington Office Web site at:=20 http://congress.nw.dc.us/ala/=20 With your help this past week, we have made headway, especially on the "database protection" front: 15 Senators have now written = Conference Committee members urging that the database bill be "delinked" = from the larger and substantively unrelated WIPO copyright package. They = are:=20 Senators Bond (R-MO), Burns (R-MT), Conrad (D-ND), D'Amato (R-NY), Dorgan = (D-ND), Kerry (D-MA), Lieberman (D-CT), Mikulski (D-MD), Moynihan (D-NY), = Rockefeller (D-WV), Sarbanes (D-MD), Shelby (R-AL), Snowe (R-ME), Warner = (R-VA) and Wyden (D-OR) . If you live in any of these Senators' states, 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 =20 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 =20 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 BACKGROUND: With less than two weeks, and even fewer "legislative days", = remaining in the 105th Congress, now is the time that the wheels within the wheels either mesh to produce legislation that = gets to the President's desk . . . or don't. NEA, together with its many partners in the library community and the = Digital Future Coalition, is fighting hard to assure that the last minute deals that are the hallmark of this end-of-Congress = environment don't reverse progress made to date in protecting public access to information or catapult unripe proposals = into law which could jeopardize such access. Both of these dangerous scenarios could easily become reality with respect = to the major intellectual property legislation on which libraries have worked so hard in this Congress. That's why your = letters now are so critical. The details of database protection and WIPO treaty implementation legislation can be = complicated, but the key concepts underlying educators' work on these bill are as familiar as common sense:=20 (1) DATABASE: Both the Departments of Commerce and Justice and the = FTC have submitted analyses to Congress expressing major concerns, including potential unconstitutionality, with the = "Collections of Information Antipiracy Act" (S. 2291/H.R. 2652). This database protection legislation could radically = restrict access to non-copyrightable information. Thus, it should not be rushed through Congress at the last minute = without Senate hearings, whether as a separate bill or as part of the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (H.R. 2281) to = implement the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) copyright treaties with which it was merged by the House in = August. ALA joined 37 other public and private sector organizations and companies that wrote to Judiciary Committee = Chairman Orrin Hatch last week asking him to defer action on this controversial measure until the next Congress. A = copy of this joint letter is posted on the Internet at http://www.dfc.org/issues/database/jntltr/jntltr.html;=20 (2) WIPO: Legislation to implement the WIPO treaties was first passed = by the Senate as S. 2037 without any provision for the future protection of fair use and various other kinds of = lawful access to information now afforded by the Copyright Act. In the House, however, efforts by key members of the = Commerce Committee succeeded in writing basic access safeguards into H.R. 2281 as approved by the full House in = early August. When the Senate and House meet to determine the final form of WIPO treaty legislation, as they will = soon, the House bill's protections for fair use and other kinds of lawful access to information must be incorporated in the = finished product.=20 FURTHER DETAILS:=20 For detailed assessments of the pending database legislation (S. = 2291/H.R. 2652) and of the pluses and minuses of the version of the WIPO treaty bill adopted by the House in early August = (H.R. 2281) please point your browser to http://www.dfc.org or, as always, contact Adam Eisgrau of the ALA = Washington Office.=20 ------- End of Forwarded Message