STATEMENT OF AMERICAN BUSINESS PRESS, Inc. The American Business Press, which is composed of some 400 special.ard business publications published from coast to coast, is extremely concerted about the growing practice of unrestricted photocopying which has been evidenced in recent years, and only compounded by the Williams and Wilkins decision. Unless a way can be found to protect the ability of periodical publishers to spend the money to gather, edit and produce technical and scientific inform tion, and then distribute it throughout the nation, the flow of that information can be seriously curtailed. Some American Business Press member publications, like Oil and Gas Journal, are sent to paid subscribers. Others, like Iron Age, are sent via the contred circulation route to readers who specifically request the receipt of that patirə tion. In the first instance, both the reader and the advertiser supply the funds through the publisher, to permit the gathering and editing of technical and scientific articles, which are then copyrighted. In the second instance, the publication's primary income comes from advertisers. In both cases, necessarf information is distributed to people employed in every phase of the technical and economic activity. If the information and the articles gathered by editors are photocopied without the consent of the copyright owner, we will have situations arising he the one dramatized in the attached Exhibit A. We have deleted the name of the company which sent the memorandum out, but we present for the consideration of the Committe what is happening. The only effect of curtailed subscriptions or curtailed circulation which this practice will cause is a severe restriction upon the securing and circulation of important editorial information because scientific and technical publicată as will not have the wherewithall to gather and edit the information to be photocopied. If this happens, the important news and scientific and technical infor mation gathering function performed by the specialized business press wil: be seriously impaired, and there will be considerably less information to photocopy for those who do not respect copyrights. We think the attached example tells the story better than we can. Hopefully the Committe and the Commission established in the last Congress will come up with solutions to this most serious problem. The American Business Press stands ready to be of whatever assistance it can in this effort. Attachment: Exhibit A. To: All Home office executives. EXHIBIT A Re: Market Research Library Periodical Service. APRIL 10, 1975. A service provided by the Market Research Library primarily for Market Research personnel is being expanded and offered to all home office executives. The Library presently receives the 79 publications on the attached list. Check off the ones that interest you and return them. You will receive the monthly tales of contents of your choices, From these tables of contents, choose the articles you want, circle the titles and return them to the Library. Xerox copies of the articles will be sent to you. Please use this service to help supplement your current reading and to elinde nate or cut back on your present subscription costs. MARKET RESEARCH LIBRARY PERIODICAL LIST (Table of contents service) 1. Aspo Planning Advisory Service (Monthly). 2. Aspo Planning Magazine (Monthly). 3. Aspo TAB Bulletin (Semi-Monthly). 4. Advertising Age (Weekly). 5. American Book Publishing Record (Monthly), 6. The American Statistician (5 Year), 7. Anta's of Economic and Social Measurement (Quarterly). 8. Atlantic Monthly (Monthly). 9 Banking (Monthly), 10. Bank Marketing (Monthly). HR. 11 Barrons (Weekly). 12 Boardroom Reports (Semi-Monthly). 15 Business Periodical Index (Monthly). 16. Business Statistics (sheet of paper) (Weekly). 17. Buisiness Week (Weekly). 1* CSA-Coops and Voluntaries (Monthly). IP CSA General Merchandising-Variety Executive Edition (Monthly). 2) CSA Supermarket Stores Edition (Monthly). 21 Changing Times (Monthly). 22 Conference Board Record (Monthly). Cofs ither News (Bi-Weekly). 24. Cot shiti er Reports (Monthly). Direct Marketing (Monthly). 2. Discount Merel andiser (Monthly), 34. Forbes (2x Month). 35 Fortune (Monthly). eskind kaining Management (Monthly). 5. Gev solitie News (Monthly) Harvard Business Review (B) Monthly), 40 Housewares (Monthly), 41 Incentive Marketing (Monthly). 41destral Marketing (Mouthis ). 45. Journal of Contemporary Business (Quarterly). 44. Journal of Marketing (Quarteriva Journal of Marketing Research (Quarterly). 46. Journal of the American Statistical Association (Quarterly). 47. Journal of Retailing (Quarterly ). 4" K.pitiger Washington Letter (Weekly). 49 Library Jourral (2x Month * Majors Composite Market Survey (Weekly). fi Marketing Information Guide (Monthly). . Marketing News (21 Month). St Marketing Review (10% Year). 4. Mass Realling Merchandiser (Monthly). * Merchandising Week (Weekly). V Modern Grocer (Weekly). 5: Miner (Mathly). 5 Mathiy Labor Review (Monthly). * Nut: mal Geographie (Monthly), Natural Mall Meritor (Monthly). 61. National Observer (Weekly). KNEN (M»nthly). 6 Nation a Hostess (Monthly). 64 Newark (Weekly) New York Magarine (Week!v), EINE Reprinted from physics today MAR 25 1974 EDITOR'S OFFICE Copyrighting physics journals Unauthorized photocopying and republishing by other institutions threatens the wide dissemination of research results and the financial stability of our publishing program. H. William Koch Changes in the manner of pblishing that po pagate madvertent errors, and ing the see wh Cann The sim coaid de 25 ah lam per year compare thi 10 AP ནའི ཕན er be d ex°. 4 'ar beyond the AIP society. they 4 we take a fav ea in attitude to the in .. are at t .1 dollar payments to AIP for lost subapa for some yournals alty free perms for AIP and the Optical Society of America to continue their transitions from Rus into King ish of 15. Soviet phyvies jetzt nas in ding about half of the Soviet physics published in journals in return ♦ reproductiom privileges in the USSR for some of at yournals ▷ redactice in the number of comparte caps of A!P and wety warnala prxduced in the USSR competing with our own kairs in Asia and both western, and eastern Europe Neg latina now in programs are expected to set up a amar pattern of future agreements with China India and it her countries My se- und spec for example concerns Phonics Abatraŭra prod, ed un Landam by the institati in of biectrical Eng Tha putinātām uses tum every abstract from every base al jou" alued by All" and a A rata taken from A∙P and wx iết y **max My resent a arge fractio more than 2% of the 1 tầm an of journal abstracto in Puo 45 |