Re: PTO Request for Comments on WIPO Treaty

On 23-10-96, Seth Greenstein wrote:
>

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> Following the '92 election, there was an interregnum at
> the Copyright Office between the terms of Ralph Oman and Marybeth Peters
> as Register of Copyrights. During that time, PTO Commissioner Lehman
> took the lead on IP policy for the Clinton Administration, leading the
> US delegation to WIPO and as part of the Administration's task force
> on the NII, leading the IP Working Group process through to the NII
> White Paper.
>

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> Several efforts have been afoot to abolish the Copyright Office as a
> separate agency of Congress and to instead fold it into the Executive
> Branch under the auspices of the Dept of Commerce, but Samuel Clemens
> counsels no predictions.

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Why wouldn't Mary Beth Peters, the Librarian of Congress, the appropriate House and Senate Committees and staffs, and copyright user and licensor organization take the lead back to the Copyright Office and out of the Lehman-led PTO and Commerce Department (also threatened with abolition by certain legislators)?

Martin Perlberger, PERLBERGER LAW OFFICES 1267 Stoner Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90025, 310 312 1400, fax 310 312 1872 http://www.inc.com/users/mperlber.html
15 Park Row, #500, New York, NY 10038, 212 233 3676, fax 212 233 3678 Received on Mon Oct 28 1996 - 01:15:35 GMT