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views were presented primarily by users of public domain motion picnires and law professors. " All of these comments are considered in the discussion below of arguments for and against extension of Copyright term.
Staff shortages kept the Office from completing this smdy, but we kept all of the materials and have made them available to the public on request. Moreover, we will be glad to provide a copy of the transcript of the hearing and comments should the subcomminee want them for the record.
Having reviewed both sides of the argument presented to the Copyright Office in 1993 and those made before this subcomminee at the June 1 hearing on H.R. 989 in California, one can only conclude that the issue of term extension is more complicated than the sometimes oversimplified or overblown argtiments made on both sides would lead one to believe. Instead of an exhaustive retelling of those arguments, the Office has prepared a chan identifying most, if not all, of them. ^ We choose here to review the major arguments on term extension in light of the 1976 considerations that are still relevant and to evaluate other considerations.
" One individual educator opposed term extension (Comment 5 1 ). Another commentator opposed extension because he felt it would cause great harm to the Gutenberg Project, which makes public domain works available internationally via electronic media. (Comment 83). A coalition group of law professors also opposed extension. (Commem 19). Sgs jIjs Comment 136, Society for Cinema Studies . Another individual commentator deplored not being able to put deteriorating materials on the Internet to promote public access. (Commeu 26). Some individual authors, producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers also opposed extension. ยง^ e.g., Comments 7S, 77, 86, 128, 130 and 160. [All of the other commentaton who opposed extension were either those who want to use public domain motion pictures or warn to have access to these films].
** This chart is attached to die statement as an Appendix.
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