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Subject: [DMCA_Discuss] Re: DMCA_Discuss Digest, Vol 12, Issue 9
From: Will Robedee <willr () ktru ! org>
Date: 2004-02-23 4:45:29
Message-ID: 40398569.20309 () ktru ! org
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I would be interested in some discussion of the issues. Please forgive
me if it has already started, as I am on on digest.
Will R
dmca_discuss-request@lists.microshaft.org wrote:
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:12:17 -0500 (EST)
> From: David P. Dillard <jwne@temple.edu>
> Reply-To: NetGold@yahoogroups.com
> To: NetGold <NetGold@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [NetGold] DATABASES : INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: ISSUES: Fwd:
> [ALA-WO:896] Action Alert: Database Protection Legislation Needs
> ImmediateGrassroots Action
>
>
> DATABASES : INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: ISSUES: Fwd: [ALA-WO:896] Action
> Alert:
> Database Protection Legislation Needs ImmediateGrassroots Action
>
> This American Library Association Alert may be of interest to members
> of
> this discussion group.
>
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>
> Fwd: [ALA-WO:896] Action Alert: Database Protection
>
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:47:01 -0800
> From: Arlene Weible <AWeible@library.unt.edu>
> Reply-To: Discussion of Government Document Issues
> <GOVDOC-L@lists.psu.edu>
> To: GOVDOC-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU
> Subject: Fwd: [ALA-WO:896] Action Alert: Database Protection
> Legislation
> Needs ImmediateGrassroots Action
> Resent-Subject: Fwd: [ALA-WO:896] Action Alert: Database Protection
> Legislation Needs ImmediateGrassroots Action
>
>
>
>
>>>>"ALAWASH E-MAIL" <ALAWASH@alawash.org> 02/19/04 03:31PM >>>
>
> ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
> Volume 13, Number 9
> February 19, 2004
>
> In This Issue: ACTION ALERT: Database Protection Legislation needs
> immediate grassroots action!
>
> H.R. 3261, the Database and Collections of Information
> Misappropriations Act, has the support of House leadership and is
> gaining momentum. On February 12, the House Judiciary Committee
> reported
> out the bill with amendments and referred it to the House Energy and
> Commerce Committee. Energy and Commerce Committee has until March 12,
> 2004 to act on the bill. See the bill at www.thomas.loc.gov
>
> It is crucial that library advocates with Representatives sitting on
> the House Energy and Commerce Committee tell their Representatives it
> is
> time to oppose this legislation.
>
> H.R. 3261 would create what amounts to ownership rights in a wide
> variety of data including facts. Despite opposition from the
> libraries,
> an array of business concerns including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
> telecommunications, financial services and high technology
> organizations, the House leadership has been committed to passing the
> legislation.
>
> Talking Points
> * Despite years of negotiation, H.R. 3261 is not acceptable to
> libraries and other opponents.
>
> * H.R. 3261 is simply not necessary. Existing laws are adequate to
> protect the interests of the database producers, who have yet to prove
> that their businesses have suffered because of any failure in the law.
>
> * H.R. 3261 gives broad protections to database producers and will lead
> to reduced competition in the database market and increased costs to
> libraries at a time when the cost of academic journals and access to
> technical, scientific and medical information is already prohibitively
> expensive for many libraries.
>
> * H.R. 3261 is too vague and will add to uncertainty in the law and
> increase the likelihood of litigation.
>
> * The narrow exemption for nonprofit educational, scientific and
> research institutions is inadequate because of the ambiguous language
> in
> the bill. Also, the exemption could be overridden by terms in
> "shrink-wrap" or non-negotiated contracts.
>
> * H.R. 3261 makes it permissible, in effect, to copyright facts - a
> practice never allowed under copyright law. By doing so, the bill
> could
> give database producers both retroactive and perpetual rights to a wide
> variety of information.
>
>
> These talking points are also available online with contact information
> for your Representatives. Go to ALA's Contact Congress legislative
> action center. www.capwiz.com/ala.
>
> E-Mail or fax the Representatives on the Energy and Commerce Committee
> TODAY!
>
> Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee:
>
> Arizona
> John B. Shadegg
>
> California
> Christopher Cox
> George Radanovich
> Mary Bono
> Darrell Issa
> Henry A. Waxman
> Anna G. Eshoo
> Lois Capps
> Hilda L. Solis
>
> Colorado
> Diana DeGette
>
> Florida
> Michael Bilirakis
> Cliff Stearns
> Peter Deutsch
> Jim Davis
>
> Georgia
> Nathan Deal
> Charlie Norwood
>
> Idaho
> C.L. "Butch" Otter
>
> Illinois
> John Shimkus
> Bobby L. Rush
> Jan Schakowsky
>
> Indiana
> Steve Buyer
>
> Kentucky
> Ed Whitfield
>
> Louisiana
> W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, Chairman
> Christopher John
>
> Maine
> Tom Allen
>
> Maryland
> Albert R. Wynn
>
> Missouri
> Karen McCarthy
>
> Massachusetts
> Edward J. Markey
>
> Michigan
> Fred Upton
> Mike Rogers
> John D. Dingell, Ranking Member
> Bart Stupak
>
> Mississippi
> Charles "Chip" Pickering
>
> Missouri
> Karen McCarthy
>
> Nebraska
> Lee Terry
>
> New Hampshire
> Charles F. Bass
>
> New Jersey
> Mike Ferguson
> Frank Pallone Jr.
>
> New Mexico
> Heather Wilson
>
> New York
> Vito Fossella
> Edolphus Towns
> Eliot L. Engel
>
> North Carolina
> Richard Burr,Vice Chairman
>
> Ohio
> Paul E. Gillmor
> Sherrod Brown
>
> Oklahoma
> John Sullivan
>
> Oregon
> Greg Walden
>
> Pennsylvania
> James C. Greenwood
> Joseph R. Pitts
> Michael F. Doyle
>
> Tennessee
> Bart Gordon
>
> Texas
> Ralph M. Hall
> Joe Barton
> Gene Green
> Charles A. Gonzalez
>
> Virginia
> Rick Boucher
>
> Wyoming
> Barbara Cubin
>
>
> ******
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