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December 30, 1998
Issue 33
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Federal Register
  Office Publishes Interim Regulations and Request for Comments on
Notice to Libraries and Archives of Normal Commercial Exploitation or
Availability at Reasonable Price (63 FR 71785)

Correction
   Correct Due Date for Comments on Mechanical and Digital Phonorecord
Delivery Rate Adjustment Proceeding Is January 25, 1999 (63 FR 71249)

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OFFICE PUBLISHES INTERIM REGULATIONS AND REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
ON NOTICE TO LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES OF NORMAL COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION
OR AVAILABILITY AT REASONABLE PRICE (63 FR 71785)
This Federal Register article was announced in the December 24, 1998,
issue number 32 of NewsNet under the title "Office Publishes Interim
Regulations and Request for Comments on Notice to Libraries." Issue 33
of NewsNet notifies our readers of the Federal Register citation for
this article. It is 63 FR 71785.

----------------Correction----------------

CORRECT DUE DATE FOR COMMENTS ON MECHANICAL AND DIGITAL
PHONORECORD DELIVERY RATE ADJUSTMENT PROCEEDING IS JANUARY 25, 1999
(63 FR 71249)
Comments on regulations that set the royalty rate for the delivery of
digital phonorecords in general and that defer until the next scheduled
rate adjustment proceeding further consideration of the royalty rate for
the delivery of a digital phonorecord where the reproduction or
distribution is incidental to the transmission that constitutes a
digital phonorecord delivery are due on January 25, 1999.


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* CALENDAR *

January 1, 1999: Effective date of cost of living adjustment for
performance of musical compositions by colleges and universities (63 FR
66042)

January 1, 1999: Effective date of specialty station list in effect for
the accounting period 1999-2001 (63 FR 67703)

January 1, 1999: Effective date of interim regulations on requirements
by which a copyright owner or its agent may provide notice to libraries
and archives that a published work in the final 20 years of its extended
term of copyright is subject to normal commercial exploitation or that a
copy or phonorecord of the work can be obtained at a reasonable price
(63 FR 71785)

January 12, 1999: Deadline for submitting request to testify at any of
three hearings on promotion of distance education through digital
technologies (63 FR 71167)

January 19, 1999: Written comments due on the proposed amendments to the
regulations governing royalty distribution and rate adjustment
proceedings prescribed by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal Reform Act of
1993 (63 FR 70080)

January 25, 1999: Demonstration of distance education programs using
digital technologies at Library of Congress (63 FR 71167)

January 25, 1999: Comments due on mechanical and digital phonorecord
delivery rate adjustment proceeding (63 FR 71249)

January 26-27, 1999: Hearing in Washington, DC, on promotion of distance
education through digital technologies. Summaries of testimony due 10
days prior to date of hearing. (63 FR 71167)

February 5, 1999: Comments due on promotion of distance education
through digital technologies (63 FR 71167)

February 10, 1999: Hearing in Los Angeles, CA, on promotion of distance
education through digital technologies. Summaries of testimony due 10
days prior to date of hearing. (63 FR 71167)

February 12, 1999: Hearing in Chicago, IL, on promotion of distance
education through digital technologies. Summaries of testimony due 10
days prior to date of hearing. (63 FR 71167)

February 15, 1999: Comments due on interim regulations on requirements
by which a copyright owner or its agent may provide notice to libraries
and archives that a published work in the final 20 years of its extended
term of copyright is subject to normal commercial exploitation or that a
copy or phonorecord of the work can be obtained at a reasonable price
(63 FR 71785)

February 16, 1999: Reply comments due on the proposed amendments to the
regulations governing royalty distribution and rate adjustment
proceedings prescribed by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal Reform Act of
1993 (63 FR 70080)

February 24, 1999: Reply comments due on promotion of distance education
through digital technologies (63 FR 71167)

April 1, 1999: Reply comments due on interim regulations on requirements
by which a copyright owner or its agent may provide notice to libraries
and archives that a published work in the final 20 years of its extended
term of copyright is subject to normal commercial exploitation or that a
copy or phonorecord of the work can be obtained at a reasonable price
(63 FR 71785)


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