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"Rush" Legislation to Extend Copyrights
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Thu Oct 23 20:17:44 1997
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:46:14 -0500
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From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
Subject: "Rush" Legislation to Extend Copyrights
About the "fast track" copyright law
being rushed through congress, while
everyone one else is preparing for a
holiday season:
Here are the names and numbers of an
assortment of bills, some of which a
different number applies to the same
name, but the basically ALL have the
express intent of taking away rights
to copy at least one million books.
Some of their email addresses are in
this file, and also. . .
Try the congressional email service:
Clickable Email addresses @ Congress
http://webcom.com/~leavitt/cong.html
!!!
One phone call is worth ten letters.
One letter is worth ten email notes.
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H.R. 604
"The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1997"
SPONSOR:
Elton Gallegly (California, 23rd)
Cosponsors
Howard Coble (North Carolina, 6th)
Howard L. Berman (California, 26th)
Bill McCollum (Florida, 8th)
Zoe Lofgren (California, 16th) zoegram@hr.house.gov
Bob Goodlatte (Virginia, 6th) talk2bob@hr.house.gov
Bob Clement (Tennessee, 5th) clement@hr.house.gov
George W. Gekas (Pennsylvania, 17th)
Robert A. Underwood (Guam, non-voting) guamtodc@hr.house.gov
Major R. Owens (New York, 11th)
Chris Cannon (Utah, 3rd) cannon.ut03@mail.house.gov
Charles T. Canady (Florida, 12th) canady@hr.house.gov
Brad Sherman (California, 24th)
Sam Johnson (Texas, 3rd) sam.tx03@mail.house.gov
Ed Bryant (Tennessee, 7th)
James E. Rogan (California, 27th)
Lamar S. Smith (Texas, 21st)
Vic Fazio (California, 3rd) dcaucus@hr.house.gov
James P. McGovern (Massachusetts, 3rd)
Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii, 1st) neil.abercrombie@mail.house.gov
Bart Gordon (Tennessee, 6th) bart@hr.house.gov
Matthew G. Martinez (California, 31st)
Michael D. Crapo (Idaho, 2nd) askmike@mail.house.gov
Donald A. Manzullo (Illinois, 16th)
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H.R. 1621 "The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1997"
SPONSOR: Sonny Bono (California, 44th)
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H.R. 2589
"The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1997"
SPONSOR:
Howard Coble (North Carolina, 6th)
Cosponsors
Barney Frank (Massachusetts, 4th)
John Conyers, Jr. (Michigan, 14th) jconyers@hr.house.gov
Elton Gallegly (California, 23rd)
Bob Goodlatte (Virginia, 6th) talk2bob@hr.house.gov
Sonny Bono (California, 44th)
Chris Cannon (Utah, 3rd) cannon.ut03@mail.house.gov
Bill McCollum (Florida, 8th)
Charles T. Canady (Florida, 12th) canady@hr.house.gov
Howard L. Berman (California, 26th)
Rick Boucher (Virginia, 9th) ninthnet@hr.house.gov
Zoe Lofgren (California, 16th) zoegram@hr.house.gov
William D. Delahunt (Massachusetts, 10th)
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"The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1997"
SPONSOR:
Orrin G. Hatch (Utah) senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov
Cosponsors
Patrick J. Leahy (Vermont) senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov
Alfonse M. D'Amato (New York) senator_al@damato.senate.gov
Fred Thompson (Tennessee) senator_thompson@thompson.senate.gov
Spencer Abraham (Michigan) michigan@abraham.senate.gov
Dianne Feinstein (California) senator@feinstein.senate.gov
Connie Mack (Florida) connie@mack.senate.gov
Mike DeWine (Ohio) senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov
Robert Torricelli (New Jersey) senator_torricelli@torricelli.senate.gov
Chuck Hagel (Nebraska) chuck_hagel@hagel.senate.gov
