The Copyright Office is seeking comments as to whether the Computer
Software Rental Amendments Act of 1990 has achieved its intended
purpose with respect to lending by nonprofit libraries. The Act
allows nonprofit libraries to lend software for nonprofit purposes if
each copy bears a warning of copyright.
One of the questions we are asked to respond to is how often
libraries lend software to other nonprofit libraries and nonprofit
educational institutions, or to staff or users of the library.
If you have statistics on the extent to which your library lends
computer software, or anecdotal comments that shed some light on
this question, I'd appreciate your sharing them with me. Thanks
Jim Heller
Wm. & Mary
Chair, AALL Copyright Committee
JSHELL@MAIL.WM.EDU
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