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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

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

- Selected List of Works on Computers and Copyright

- Photocopying and the 1976 Copyright Act

- Articles Written by the Commission Staff

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 I – Bibliography

Articles Written by the Commission Staff

Frase, Robert W. Legislation affecting publishing in 1974. In Bowker annual 1975. New York: R. R. Bowker & Co., 1975, pp. 109‑19.

—. Legislation affecting publishing in 1975. In Bowker annual 1977. New York: R. R Bowker & Co., 1976, pp. 127‑36.

—. Legislation affecting publishing in 1976. In Bowker annual 1977. New York: R. R. Bowker & Co., 1977, pp. 107‑15.

—. Legislation affecting publishing in 1977. In Bowker annual 1978. New York: R. R. Bowker & Co., 1978, pp. 119‑26.

Keplinger, Michael S. Automation and the individual: constitutional, legal, and regulatory aspects. In Au­tomation opportunities in the service sector, report to the Federal Council on Science and Technology,May 1975.

—. Computer intellectual property claims: com­puter software and data base protection. Washing­ton University Law Quarterly, no. 3 (Summer 1977), pp. 461‑67.

—. Copyright and personal computing. AFIPS Personal Computing Digest, 1978, pp. 37-42.

—. Copyright law, higher education, and tech­nological change. EDUCOM Bulletin 12, no. 4 (Winter 1977): 2‑7.

—. Implications of the new copyright law for libraries and computer users. International Techni­cal Communications Conference proceedings, 1978, pp. 203‑9.

—. Input of copyrighted works to computer sys­tems as copyright infringement. In Computer law service, ed. R. P. Bigelow, October 1973.

—and Frase, Robert W. The role of CONTU in computers and photocopying. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication PC‑20, no. 3 (No­vember 1977): 167‑70.

Levine, Arthur J. Copyrighted Works, National Com­mission on New Technological Uses of (CONTU). In ALA yearbook, 1976 ed. Chicago: American Li­brary Association, 1976, pp. 146-47.

—. CONTU. In ALA yearbook, 1977 ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1977, pp. 97‑98.

—. National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works. In Bowker annual 1976. New York: R. R. Booker & Co., 1976, pp. 122-25.

—. National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU). In Bowker annual 1977. New York: R. R. Bowker & Co., 1977, pp. 31‑34.

—. National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works. In Bowker annual 1978. New York: R. R. Bowker & Co., 1978, pp. 51‑54.

Levine, Arthur J., and Meyer, Christopher A. Unfin­ished business—copyright issues unresolved by the Act of 1976. APLA Quarterly Journal, vol. 6. no. 1, pp. 61‑73.

Levine, Arthur J., and Squires, Jeffrey L. Notice, de­posit and registration: the importance of being formal. UCLA Law Review 24,nos. 5 and 6 (June-­August 1977): 1232‑64.

Risher, Carol.1 The National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU).Serials Librarian 2, no. 2 (Winter 1977): 129‑37.

Squires, Jeffrey L. Copyright and compilations in the computer era: old wine in new bottles. Bulletin of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 24, no. 1 (October 1976): 18-46.



1 Ms.Risher was formerly information officer of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works.