Of immediate concern to the library community is the full implementation of the recently enacted provisions designating libraries of accredited law schools as depository libraries (PL 95-261). As the activities of the government and the legal system touch the everyday lives of our citizens more each day, it is essential that fundamental legal and other government information resources be made available at an increasing number of access points. ALA wishes to applaud recent successful efforts by the Government Printing Office to cut costs through the offering of selected publications in microform. We look forward to assisting the Public printer with additional selections in the Micropublishing Program. In conclusion, we wish to express our appreciation for this opportunity to present our views to the Subcommittee on Legislative Appropriations. We trust that you will consider the Government Printing Office not only as the printer for the Congress and the agencies, but as the public's window on the government. Sincerely, Fiber looke Eileen D. Cooke Director ALA Washington Office EDC:ss bi March 8, 1979 the "Buy Insurance" people bi Associates Inc. The Honorable Adam Benjamin Chairman, House Appropriations Subcommittee U. S. House of Representatives Washington, D. C. 205 15 Dear Mr. Benjamin: We have built a machine readable data base from the roughly 26,000 pages of documentation which accompany the six million dollars in copyright royalty fees submitted each six months by the CATV operating systems. We report to subscribers the potential return for their copyrighted programming under a number of different formulas. They rely on this data in the negotiations with each other, and to be able, hopefully, to agree upon one formula which the Copyright Royalty Tribunal would use, as outlined in the statute, for disbursements. Each of our subscribers has access to detailed analyses of reported usage of their copyrighted materials. As claimants competing for the largest share of the royalty fees, they go over our figures with a fine toothed comb. These repeated subscriber tests certify the accuracy of the data. We have been marketing this series of reports to all the claimants, and can report favorable response sufficient to make this project economically viable, with subscribers ranging through each of the three television networks, Metromedia, Westinghouse, Time-Life Films, Major League Baseball and others, both large and small. We are a highly experienced information resource company with a seven year history of successfully serving marketing needs in and around the broadcasting industry, including the Television Violence Review Reports project for the American Medical Association. I personally am an experienced broadcasting executive. Honorable Adam Benjamin From each standpoint, the filing of the reports by the CATV systems, the depositing of the moneys collected, the accounting logic and the reporting system are all in place. Thus I am able to report that the underlying legislation is working. The next portion; the acceptance of a disbursement formula agreed to by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal can now be put in place. This has been accomplished at virtually no cost to the government. It is my concern that there might be consideration of "re-inventing the wheel" duplicating the massive data input, writing the required accounting programs with multiple formula consideration variables by either the Library of Congress or the Copyright Royalty Tribunal. This would cost a great deal of the taxpayer's money while a viable and proven alternative, with almost no additional government expense is already implemented. Carroll, J. R. 1131 1265 1697 1927 1927 1927 Cashdollar, Jenny Colley, W. R. Crupi, Emanuele Havens, H. S Hays, George Heller, J. D.. Henshaw, E. L., Jr. Heny, Mike.. Horan, D. J. Hussey, W. M.. Hylander, C. D. Keller, R. F Kilby, H. C., Jr Mercer, B. W Minkin, Noah. Molloy, J. T. 1621 1265 Panzera, Donald Peach, D. J 2231 1697 |