LEGISLATIVE NEWSFLASH
Washington, DC
August 4, 1998
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2281, The Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, by a
voice vote today. A version of this legislation passed the Senate
earlier this summer, and will be sent
to a joint Senate-House Conference Committee to resolve differences
in language before being sent
to the President.
There is a possibility that other legislation dealing with
copyright, including music licensing and
copyright term extension could be appended to this bill in the Joint
House-Senate Conference
Committee.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is an important step towards
ratification of the World
Intellectual Property Organization Treaties, and represents a
collaborative effort to regulate copyright
in cyberspace.
[LEGISLATIVE NEWSFLASH; Washington, DC August 4, 1998]
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