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Letter to Orrin Hatch and Patrick J. Leahy re: S. 2560, Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (Sept. 17, 2004)
Letter from interested organizations expressing concerns with the Copyright Office's September 9, 2004 recommended statutory language for a new form of secondary liability for copyright infringement. lt-hatch-leahy-induceact-17sep04.pdf
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Letter to Elias A. Zerhouni re: NIH Public Access Policy (Aug. 31, 2004)
Letter from library associations to director of National Institutes of Health (NIH), expressing strong support of the NIH proposal to provide freely available online access to NIH-funded manuscripts via PubMedCentral....
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Letter to Senators Hatch, Leahy, Daschle, and Frist re: S. 2560, the Induce Act (Aug. 24, 2004)
Letter from interested organizations, in response to the invitation to witnesses at the hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, suggesting an alternative to S. 2560, the Induce Act. lt-senate-induceact-24aug04.pdf
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Open Access Publication of Scientific Research – FY 2005 Appropriations
Dear Representatives Regula and Obey, Senators Specter and Harkin and Dr. Zerhouni: Our organizations are volunteer and nonprofit HIV/AIDS treatment, vaccine, and prevention advocacy groups with a long history of...
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Letter to Orrin Hatch re: S. 2560, Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (Jul. 6, 2004)
Letter from interested organizations requesting that United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary hold hearings on S. 2560, the "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004" before taking action. lt-hatch-leahy-induceact-06jul04.pdf
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Letter to Porter J. Goss and James Sensenbrenner re: H.R. 3179, the “AntiTerrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003” (Jun. 15, 2004)
Letter from interested organizations advising that consideration of H.R. 3179, should be postponed until Congress has conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the Patriot Act authorities. lt-goss-sensenbrenner-hr3179-15jun04.pdf
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Letter to Robert F. Bennett re: FY 2005 funding request for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) (Jun. 1, 2004)
Letter from library associations in support of the FY 2005 funding request of $23.3 million for the National Agricultural Library (NAL). nal-jnt-lt-01jun04.pdf
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Joint Letter in Support of LC FY2004 Budget Request (Apr. 22, 2003)
Library association letter in support of the FY2004 budget request of the Library of Congress. lt-loc-house-04budget.pdf
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Letter to Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. and W.J. Tauzin re: H.R. 3261, “Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act” (Jan. 15, 2004)
Letter expressing opposition to the H.R. 3261, entitled "Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act." dbcoalitionletter011504.pdf
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Letter to Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. and W.J. “Billy” Tauzin re: “Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act” Discussion Draft (Sept. 8, 2003)
Letter from the Net Coalition regarding the "Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act" ("Discussion Draft" or "Draft"), specifically several provisions that would be unnecessarily punitive to the Internet community...