CONTU Final Report

The CONTU Final Report

The National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) was established by Congress, and operated between 1975 and 1978 to determine how the Copyright Act of 1976 should address computers and copy machines. On July 31, 1978, it issued its Final Report, which is frequently cited, but not readily available.

We have scanned a copy of the report and have converted it both to PDF and HTML files. You can also access the HTML version through its Table of Contents.

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The PDF version can be accessed through the links below. The report contains the following sections:

Preliminary material (129 KBytes)
Table of Contents (217 KBytes)
Chapter 1: The Commission and Its Recommendation (94 KBytes)
Chapter 2: The Establishment, Mandate, and Activities of the Commission (453 KBytes)
Chapter 3: Computers and Copyright (2,981 KBytes)
Chapter 4: Machine Reproduction - Photocopying (2,337 KBytes)
Chapter 5: Summary (91 KBytes)
Appendix A: Summary of the History of Computer-Related Issues and the Photocopy Issue (1,796 KBytes)
Appendix B: Public Law 93-573 and Public Law 95-146 (116 KBytes)
Appendix C: Commissioners (164 KBytes)
Appendix D: Staff (84 KBytes)
Appendix E: Lists of Witnesses (212 KBytes)
Appendix F: Alphabetical Listing of Persons Appearing before the Commission (142 KBytes)
Appendix G: Transcripts of Commission Meetings (232 KBytes)
Appendix H: Summaries of Commission-Sponsored Studies (632 KBytes)
Appendix I: Bibliography (523 KBytes)
Appendix J: Selected Provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976 and Copyright Office Regulations (845 KBytes)

Last updated: 09-28-2003