We have been warning you for some time that a million books would be kept under copyright when they should have gone to the Public Domain under the provisions of the copyright law under which they were copyrighted.

This is a breach of the copyright contract between a public and the government purporting to be supporting the "general welfare" of that public.

Governments SAY they promote literacy and education for the masses, but these bills would remove a million books from a quarter of a billion people, in the US alone.

That is a total of a quarter of a quadrillion books that it will be illegal to make.  Even if you value a lifetime book access to each of these books at only a penny, the loss for the US public is $2,500,000,000,000 [$2.5 Quadrillion].

This HAS been done before, and the result has been literacy rates and SAT scores plummeting over the past 20-30 years.

These bills HAVE been stopped before. . .but they are on an express "fast track" this time to "spring this legislation" upon us before we have a chance to react.

You can contact your congress people as follows:

Try the congressional email service:
Clickable Email addresses @ Congress

http://webcom.com/~leavitt/cong.html

zip code +4 gets your congressperson

Remember, 1 phone call = 10 letters:
and one letter equals ten emails!!!!

Thanks!!!

Michael S. Hart
Project Gutenberg Executive Director
Internet User ~#100