The first meeting of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) established some basic premises and procedures. Commissioners representing various interests concerned with copyright legislation (librarians, publishers, consumers and lawyers) discussed the responsibility of the Commission to review copyright…

Several reports were considered at the second meeting of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU). A proposed study to collect data on the present status and extent of photocopying (sponsored by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) ) was presented and its eventual usefulness to…

Several presentations were made at the eighth meeting of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU). The president of the Association for Computing Machinery addressed the issue of interactions of computer technology and economics, education, and society. A representative from the Center for Educational Media…

In a series of meetings held over a period of three days, the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) heard presentations, arranged by the American Society for Information Science, on information systems in general and on the operations of specific systems. The first presentation covered information storage and…