A bill to establish a commission to study and make recommendations on the desirability and feasibility of amending the copyright laws to compensate authors for the not-for-profit lending of their works.

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Creates a National Commission on the Lending of Authors' Works to consider whether a compensation system of payments from appropriations or a national trust fund to authors for the lending of their works would promote authorship in the United States without adversely affecting the reading public. Includes the Librarian of Congress and ten presidential appointees on such Commission. Requires a preliminary report within one year after the Commission's first meeting and a final report within two years of such meeting to the President and to the Congress on its recommendations. Terminates the Commission after the submission of its final report. Authorizes appropriations.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 14 March 1985

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