At the Judiciary Subcommittee hearings in June 1975, Chairman
Kastenmeier and other members urged the parties to meet together
independently in an effort to achieve a meeting of the minds as to
permissible educational uses of copyrighted material. The response to
these suggestions was positive, and a number of meetings of three
groups, dealing respectively with classroon, reproduction of printed
material, music, and audio-visual material, were held beginning in
September 1975.

*(ii) Guidelines With Respect to Books and Periodicals*

In a joint letter to Chairman Kastenmeier, dated March 19, 1976, the
representatives of the Ad Hoc Committee of Educational Institutions and
Organizations on Copyright Law Revision, and of the Authors League of
America, Inc., and the Association of American Publishers, Inc., stated:

"You may remember that in our letter of March 8, 1976 we told you that
the negotiating teams representing authors and publishers and the Ad
Hoc Group had reached tentative agreement on guidelines to insert in
the Committee Report covering educational copying from books and
periodicals under Section 107 of H.R. 2223 and S. 22, and that as part
of that tentative agreement each side would accept the amendments to
Sections 107 and 504 which were adopted by your Subcommittee on March
3,1976.

"We are now happy to tell you that the agreement has been approved by the
principals and we enclose a copy herewith. We had originally intended to
translate the agreement into language suitable for inclusion in the
legislative report dealing with Section 107, but we have since been
advised by committee staff that this will not be necessary.