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Introduction to the online version

Chapter 1 – The Commission and Its Recommendations

Chapter 2 – The Establishment, Mandate, and Activities of the Commission

Chapter 3 – Computers and Copyright

Chapter 4 – Machine Reproduction – Photocopying

Chapter 5 – Summary

Appendix A – Summary of the Legislative History of Computer-Related Issues and the Photocopy Issue

Appendix B – Public Law 93-573 and Public Law 95-146

Appendix C – Commissioners

Appendix D – Staff

Appendix E – Lists of Witnesses

- Copyright and Computer-Related Issues

- Copyright and Photocopy Issues

- Witnesses Supplying Background Information

Appendix F – Alphabetical Listing of Persons Appearing before the Commission

Appendix G – Transcripts of Commission Meetings

Appendix H – Summaries of Commission-Sponsored Studies

Appendix I – Bibliography

Appendix J – Selected Provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976 and Copyright Office Regulations


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Final Report of the National Commission on New Technology Uses of Copyrighted Works


Appendix E – Lists of Witnesses

Copyright and Photocopy Issues

Third Meeting, December 18-19, 1975, New York City

David Catterns, Legal Research Officer, Aus­tralian Copyright Council

 

Fifth Meeting, April 1-2, 1976, New York City

Samuel Freedman, Research Publications

John Rothman, New York Times Information Bank

 

Eighth Meeting, September 16-17, 1976, Los Angeles, California

Patricia Ferguson and Donna Chamberlain, Documentation Associates Information Services, Inc.

 

Ninth Meeting, October 21-22, 1976, Arlington, Virginia

Vernon E. Palmour, Public Research Institute, Center for Naval Analyses

Donald King, King Research, Inc.

Melvin S. Day, Deputy Director, and H. Schoolman, Assistant Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine

Gordon Williams, Director, Center for Research Libraries

Thomas D. Gillies, Director, Linda Hall Library

Maurice B. Line, Director, British Library Lend­ing Division

 

Eleventh Meeting, January 13-14, 1977, Arlington, Virginia

Richard A. Farley, Director, and Wallace Olsen, Deputy Director of Library Services, National Agricultural Library

Gerald Sophar, former Executive Director, Com­mittee to Investigate Copyright Problems Affecting Communication in Science and Ed­ucation, Inc.

Edward C. Mclrvine, Manager, Technical As­sessment, Xerox Corporation

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Ben H. Weil, Exxon Research and Engineering Company

Peter F. Urbach, Deputy Director, National Technical Information Service

Charles Lieb, Copyright Counsel, Association of American Publishers

Paul G. Zurkowski, President, Information In­dustry Association

Irwin Karp, Authors League of America, Inc.

 

Thirteenth Meeting, March 31-April 1, 1977, New York City

Charles Lieb, Copyright Counsel, Association of American Publishers with

Michael Harris and Ben H. Weil for the As­sociation of American Publishers

H. William Koch, Director, American Institute of Physics

Ed Brown, President, Newsletter Association of America

Allen R. Ferguson, President, Public Interest Economics Center

 

Fifteenth Meeting, July 11-12, 1977, Washington, D. C.

Fritz Machiup, Professor of Economics, Prince-ton and New York Universities

Vernon E. Palmour, Public Research Institute, Center for Naval Analyses

Allen R. Ferguson, President, Public Interest Economics Center and Bert Cowlan, Codirector, Public Interest Satellite Association with

Larry Haverkamp, Public Interest Economics Center

 

Sixteenth Meeting, September 15-16, 1977, Chicago, illinois

Donald King, President, King Research, Inc. Stevens Rice, Vice-President, University Microfilms

 

Seventeenth Meeting, October 21, 1977, Washington, D. C.

Frank E McKenna, Chairman with

Julius L. Marke, Edward G. Holley, John G. Lorenz, Nina Matheson, and Susan Sommer, Members of the Committee on Copy­right Law Practice and Implementation, Council of National Library Associations

Eugene Garfield, President, Institute for Scien­tific Information, Inc.

Irwin Karp, Esq., Authors League of America, Inc.

Charles Lieb, Copyright Counsel, and Michael Harris, Association of American Publishers

Ben H. Weil, Vice-President and Secretary, with

David P. Waite, President, and Michael Har­ris, Chairman of the Board, Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

 

Twentieth Meeting, February 16-17, New York City

Michael Harris, Chairman of the Board, Copy­right Clearance Center, Inc.

 

Twenty- frst Meeting, April 20, 1978, Washington, D. C.

Douglas Price, Deputy Director, National Com­mission on Libraries and Information Science

William Frawley, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association

Paul G. Zurkowski, President, Information In­dustry Association

Frank E. McKenna, Chairman, Committee on Copyright Law and Implementation, Council of National Library Associations with

Ellen Mahar, John Lorenz, Naomi Broering, and Eileen Cooke, Members

Charles Lieb, Association of American Pub­lishers


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