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PS Those who would virtually eliminate the concept of Public Domain in the US on the government level are at it again [well, I presume they never really stop] and have introduced H.R. 604 [as I recall] which is continuation of permanent efforts to eliminate 20 more years from the Public Domain archives of the US. If information is doubling every two years as they say, then this would be an elimination of 99.9% of all Public Domain information in the US if and when a law of this nature should take effect. Another effort is in place to kill an estimated 99% of all the information ALREADY in the Public Domain in the US-- by reinstating copyrights for 15 years of works which expired long ago. F>act is, copyright in the US was originally proposed by Jefferson to be 14 years-- which was extended to 28 years immediately, then 56 years to defeat the first steam and electric powered printing presses of a century ago, and to 75 years to defeat the xerox machine. Now they are trying for 95 years to defeat text made available via computer networks. If you think this cannot happen in the modern era, just look what Great Britain, Germany and Italy have done in 1996 to destroy their cultural public domain archives. Each of them has removed a huge portion of their public domain archives back into copyright limitations, and the public has lost their rights to works they paid for long ago.T>

Copyright is a two-edged sword, meant to protect the public rights, even more than the rights of the publishers, but new alliances between governments, and between governments and the Information Rich, have taken us into what we will call the "Infomation Age". . .but which, like most "Ages" of the past, should be considered an "Age of Exploitation" of the Information Rich on the rest of us, who are rapidly becoming the "Information Poor" as the Information Moguls carve up the world so that EVERYTHING is now copyrighted, for a period longer than the average human lifetime, but a period which is never long enough. . . not for those who want to make fortunes from work they never did. . .who wa>nt to appear more informed, not be studying and learning, but by insuring all of the rest of us are less informed.

Project Gutenberg has published an index of the last Congress of the US, and, with your assistance, would like to update that one for this Congress; please email me if you have update information.

Apr 1995
United States Congressional Address Book, 1995 [usconxxx.xxx] 251
was the last one we posted, we would like to do another shortly.

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The comments of a certain person who provides a little antagonistic comic relief on the PACS and Digitial Librarians listservers are of course still being ignored.

Michael Stern Hart Executive Director Project Gutenberg

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