Replaces Issue no. 4 dated January 7, 1997.

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January 12, 1998

Issue no. 4
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CONTENTS

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1.  Federal Register

    a. Mechanical and digital phonorecord delivery rate
       adjustment
    b. Group registration of serials
    c. List of Notices of Intent to Enforce copyrights
       restored under URAA

2.  Legislation PRESIDENT SIGNS NO ELECTRONIC THEFT (NET)ACT

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Federal Register

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TECHNICAL AMENDMENT MADE TO ADDRESS FOR GROUP
REGISTRATION OF SERIALS (62 FR 66822)
In 1990, the Copyright Office adopted a new registration
procedure permitting group registration of serial publications
under certain conditions. Effective December 2, 1997, the
Office amended the address to which the complimentary
subscriptions must be mailed. The two complimentary
subscriptions and the letter stating that the subscriptions
have been given must be mailed SEPARATELY to the same address,
which is Library of Congress, Group Periodical Registration,
Washington, D.C. 205404161.
LINK: http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/1997/62fr66822.html

OFFICE PUBLISHES LIST OF NOTICES OF INTENT TO ENFORCE
COPYRIGHTS RESTORED UNDER THE URAA (62 FR 66765)
On December 19, 1997 the Copyright Office published its sixth
list of restored copyrights for which it has received and
processed Notices of Intent to Enforce a copyright restored
under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. The list includes NIEs
received between August 8, 1997, and December 5, 1997.
LINK: http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/1997/62fr66765.html

LEGISLATION

PRESIDENT SIGNS NO ELECTRONIC THEFT (NET) ACT (P.L. 105-147)
President signed H.R. 2265 on December 16, 1997. Among other
changes, P.L. 105-147 amends Federal copyright law to define
"financial gain" to include the receipt of anything of value,
including the receipt of other copyrighted works; sets new
penalties for willful infringement; and extends the statute of
limitations for criminal copyright infringement.
LINK: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2265:

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