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December 16, 1998
Issue 30
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Federal Register
  Office Reopens Comment Period on Notice And Recordkeeping for Making
and Distributing Phonorecords (63 FR 69251)

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----------------Federal Register----------------

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Copyright Office homepage at http://www.copyright.gov.

OFFICE REOPENS COMMENT PERIOD ON NOTICE AND RECORDKEEPING FOR MAKING
AND DISTRIBUTING PHONORECORDS (63 FR 69251)
  The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is reopening the
comment period on the requirements by which copyright owners will
receive reasonable notice of the use of their works in the digital
distribution of phonorecords. The comment period is reopened until noon
on December 24, 1998. Parties who have previously filed comments may
supplement those comments if they wish. The Office will not reopen the
reply comment period. (This same information appeared in the last issue
of NewsNet, Issue 29. The Office is republicizing it because we now have
the Federal Register citation.)


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* CALENDAR *

December 24, 12:00 p.m., 1998: Deadline for receipt of comments on the
requirements by which copyright owners will receive reasonable notice of
the use of their works in the digital distribution of phonorecords

December 28: Effective date of procedural regulations to implement the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998

January 1, 1999: Effective date of cost of living adjustment for
performance of musical compositions by colleges and universities

January 1, 1999: Effective date of specialty station list in effect for
the accounting period 1999 2001


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