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Forwarded from the NINCH list. Roger Lawson indicated that he has asked
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Judy
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Date: 5/27/99 11:17 AM
RE: Alternative Database Copyright Bill Introduced
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
May 27, 1999
Alternative Database Copyright Bill Introduced
http://www.databasedata.org/index.html
<http://www.databasedata.org/Statement/statement.html>
The following announcement from the NCC Washington Update is a reminder of
the database bill H.R. 1858 introduced May 19as an alternative to H.R.
354, the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act. NINCH is one of the
co-signers of the statement referred to.
David Green
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>Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:13:03 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Page Miller <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 5, #17, May 26, 1999 (fwd)
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FROM: NCC Washington Update, Vol 5, #17, May 26, 1999
> by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating
> Committee for the Promotion of History <[log in to unmask]>
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>>SNIP>>
>5. Alternative Database Copyright Bill: On May 19 Representatives Thomas
>Bliley (R-VA) and John Dingell (D-MI), the chair and ranking minority
>member of the House Commerce Committee, introduced H.R. 1858, the Consumer
>and Investor Access to Information Act of 1999.
This bill provides an alternative to H.R. 354, the Collections of
Information Antipiracy Act, which seeks to prohibit the misappropriation of
commercial collections of information by unscrupulous competitors who take
data collected by others, repackage it, and market a product that threatens
competitive injury to the original collection.
H.R.1858 also seeks to provide protection to publishers of electronic
databases but it also ensures public access to facts and information, which
historically have been part of the public domain. The American Library
Association and other library and scholarly groups that have been critical
of H.R. 354 are strong supporters of the alternative bill, H.R. 1858.
Additional information about H.R. 1858 may be found at
<http://www.databasedata.org/Statement/statement.html>
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David L. Green
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