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U.S. Copyright Office
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February 8, 1999
Issue 37
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CONTENTS

* Federal Register News *

Change in Mailing Addresses for NIEs and GATT Registrations (64 FR 3574)

* Calendar *

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OFFICE CHANGES MAILING ADDRESS FOR NIES
AND FOR GATT REGISTRATIONS (64 FR 3574)

Effective February 22, the address for submitting Notices of Intent to Enforce (NIE) a
restored copyright is changed. The new address is: GC/I&R, P.O. Box 70400,
Southwest Station, Washington, D.C. 20024. The new address for filing GATT registrations
is the same as for all copyright registrations: Library of Congress, Copyright Office,
101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20559-6000.

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* CALENDAR *

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

February 12: 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: 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 22: Effective date of change of mailing address for NIEs and
GATT registrations. The new address for NIEs is GC/I&R, P.O. Box 70400,
Southwest Station, Washington, D.C. 20024. The new address for GATT
registrations is Library of Congress, Copyright Office, 101 Independence
Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20559-6000 (64 FR 3574)

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

March 8: 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 (64 FR
3746)

April 1: 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)

April 5: 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 (64 FR 3055 and 64 FR 3746)

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