Re: Database Fasttrack? HyperLaw Report

Alan D. Sugarman <sugarman[_at_]hyperlaw.com> wrote:
>
> HYPERLAW REPORT OCTOBER 20, 1997
>
> RE: I. ALERT HEARINGS ON NEW DATABASE PROTECTION BILL HR 2652 (LONG)
>
> [Note -- This Report Will be Revised and Updated. This is Version I.]
>
> This report, or rather essay, is provided as food for thought, as
> Congress readies to ram through a database protection bill, one
> introduced last week.
>
> West is back again attempting to push through Congress a database
> protection bill so as to protect its publications of non-copyrightable
> public domain information, now joined by its new ally, Reed Elsevier.
> The bill was introduced on October 9, 1996 and hearings are scheduled
> for October 23, just three days away, by the Subcommittee on Courts and
> Intellectual Property of the House Committee on the Judiciary....

Presumably you (or whoever) means October 1997.

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