...the world. _V We recognize the special responsibility of the Copyright Office to be concerned about the rights of copyright owners, and the needs of users of copyrighted works. Our comments today are intended to be neutral in that we do not purport to favor one interest over...

...Copyright Office to conduct a study of distance education and submit to Congress recommendations on "how to promote distance education through digital...owners and the needs of users of copyrighted works." In its report to Congress last May, the Copyright Office recommended a number of changes to current...

...submit recommendations to the Congress no later than 6 months after the date of enactment of the bill on how to promote distance education through digital...rights of copyright owners and the needs of users. Where appropriate, the Register shall include legislative recommendations to achieve those objectives....

...institutions, and nonprofit libraries and archives, shall submit to the Congress recommendations on how to promote distance education through digital...owners and the needs of users of copyrighted works. Such recommendations shall include any legislation the Register of Copyrights considers appropriate...

...us with the responsibility to study how to promote distance education through digital technologies, while maintaining an appropriate balance between the...rights of copyright owners and the needs of users. The Office's report which we formally submit to the Congress today is the outcome of an intensive process...

...educational institutions, and nonprofit libraries and archives, and to submit to Congress a report on how to promote distance education through digital...rights of copyright owners and the needs of users. The Office was tasked with considering the following issues: 1) the need for a new exemption; 2) the...

...educational institutions, and nonErofit libraries and archives, and to submit to Congress a report on ow to promote distance education through digital technologies,...rights of copyright owners and the needs of users. We were tasked with a number of issues. One was to look at the need for new exemption, the categories...

...distance education, no later than 6 months after enactment. The report shall include recommendations "on how to promote distance education through digital...copyright owners and the needs of users of copyrighted works."58 Paragraph (b) of SEC. 403 lists 8 factors that the Register shall consider in formulating...

...Congress in May 1999. Our charge was to study how to promote distance education using digital technologies while maintaining an appropriate balance between the...owners and the needs of users of copyrighted works. The extensive report recommended changes which would expand an existing educational exemption while...

...to Congress recommendations regarding how to promote distance education through digital technologies while 'maintaining an appropriate balance between...rights of copyright owners and the needs of users'. • States explicitly that 'nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations or defenses...