oppose HR 3261

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Robert

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Robert

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May 8, 2004

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Dear [recipient name was inserted here],

HR 3261 establishes conditions under which a person is prohibited from 
taking a "quantitatively substantial" part of the information in a 
database and making it commercially available.  Libraries and other 
opponents believe that the bill could allow database producers to maintain 
perpetual ownership rights in a wide variety of data.

This bill has a huge "click-wrap licenses" loophole which allows companies 
to prevent users from fair use quoting.  It also allows publishers who 
incorporate government data into their products to lock up that 
information for an indeterminate amount of time.

This is bad legislation and should be opposed.

Sincerely,

Robert