_________________________________________________________________ ALAWON Volume 7, Number 118 ISSN 1069-7799 October 1, 1998 American Library Association Washington Office Newsline In this issue: (88 lines) FAIR USE AND DATABASE ACCESS ISSUES STILL UNRESOLVED; ACTION STILL NEEDED URGENTLY _________________________________________________________________ FAIR USE AND DATABASE ACCESS ISSUES STILL UNRESOLVED; ACTION STILL NEEDED URGENTLY Conferees on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (H.R. 2281) postponed their final meeting, tentatively set for Tuesday, September 29. A new date has not yet been scheduled, but could be any day now. The action and contacts urged in the September 28 ALAWON (v7, n 113) are still urgently needed. Even if you've never contacted Congress before, now is the time to phone and fax all members of the Conference Committee listed below (especially if you are a constituent) to ask that they: (1) SUPPORT no less protection for fair use than that afforded by the House's version of H.R. 2281 (the Senate's version contains no fair use protection at all); and (2) OPPOSE the inclusion of any "database protection" legislation in the final version of the bill (Title V of the House bill addresses this issue; the Senate bill is silent). It's also urgent that both of your Senators -- even though neither may be on the Conference Committee -- be asked to contact Senate conference committee leaders Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) immediately to relay the two critical messages above. For online sample letters, e-mail connections to your Members of Congress and more background information, please visit the ALA Washington Office Legislative Action Center Web site at http://congress.nw.dc.us/ala/ DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS SENATE ST PTY SENATOR PHONE FAX SC R Strom Thurmond 224-5972 224-1300 UT R Orrin G. Hatch, chairman 224-5251 224-6331 VT D Patrick J. Leahy 224-4242 HOUSE ST-DST PTY REPRESENTATIVE PHONE FAX CA-26 D Howard L. Berman 225-4695 225-5279 IL-6 R Henry J. Hyde, chairman 225-4561 225-1166 LA-3 R W. J. Tauzin 225-4031 225-0563 MI-14 D John Conyers 225-5126 225-0072 MI-16 D John D. Dingell 225-4071 NC-6 R Howard Coble 225-3065 225-8611 VA-6 R Bob Goodlatte 225-5431 225-9681 VA-7 R Tom Bliley 225-2815 225-0011 _________________________________________________________________ ALAWON is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc @ala.org. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/ subscribe.html or send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/ washoff/alawon. Visit our Web site at http://www.alawash.org. ALA Washington Office 202.628.8410 (V) 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, #403 202.628.8419 (F) Washington, DC 20004-1701 800.941.8478 (V) Lynne E. Bradley, Editor Deirdre Herman, Managing Editor Contributors: Adam Eisgrau All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. _________________________________________________________________