stores. In the case of weekly and monthly serials, it receives two complimentary subscription copies; for daily current events papers, it expects to receive the majority of the 305 dailies currently purchased in microfilm at an annual cost of about $150,000.1

At the same time, Library officials echoed the strong reluctance of Copyright office management to extend group daily registrations to include newsletters. The Library averred that from a random sample of 1190 daily non-newspaper formats known to the Library, only 38 are kept for the Library's permanent collection. Because of the "high administrative costs for Library offices such as the Serial Record Division...", the Library concluded that "...the group registration process would not be the most cost-effective means for the Library to obtain these materials."

Copyright has resisted group procedures because they garner smaller fees ($1.33 per issue in the case of group dailies; $10.00 per issue for group weeklies and monthlies, as compared with $20.00 per work for all other claims) and are administratively far more burdensome than single claims. Through accounting, processing, examination, certificate production, and cataloging, all works in a group must be kept together. If one issue is lost, all must be held until the missing copy is located. Similarly, if one requires correspondence, all must be held until the problem is resolved. Finally, even if the registration is problem-free, each issue must be examined, cataloged, and tracked separately. In the case of group serials, this means as much as 14 times the normal work for one-half the fee. For group dailies that require more time-consuming examination of microfilm, the workload is as much as 30 times the normal, for only twice the fee. In addition, because group registration procedures and fee structures are aberrations from the norm, our automated tracking system must be modified to accommodate other than standard fee service.

In terms of manpower and money, group procedures are more costly than the norm. Absent a strong showing of countervailing benefits to the national Library's collection, the Office has narrowly circumscribed their availability. Nonetheless, we are aware that daily newsletter publishers are keenly interested in price and paperwork breaks, and complain that they are effectively frozen out of the current

1 Representatives of the National Newspaper Association stated at a March 1, 1991 meeting with the office that 70 to 80 percent of its membership would register at reduced fee, and thereby save the Library at least $100,000 in purchase costs every year.

copyright system. Because you, Mr. Chairman, at the recent House hearings, have focused attention on newsletter concerns, we remain receptive to further discussions of registration options. In fact, Mr. Warren plans to visit the Copyright office this Friday. We approach the meeting with an open mind, and I will give you a full account of our discussions immediately thereafter.

Sincerely,

Ralph Oiar
Register of

ights

The Honorable William J. Hughes

Chairman, Subcommittee on Intellectual

Property and Judicial Administration

House of Representatives

Washington, D. C. 20515-6216

APPENDIX 13.-MAGAZINE ARTICLE, "RIP-OFF ARTIST LEARNS TO READ!"
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