Mr. ANDREWS. Now we will take up salaries and expenses of the Copyright Office, page 170 of the committee print, page 116 in the justification. Dr. MUMFORD. In addition to the green sheets, Mr. Chairman, may I ask that the tables on page 120 and 121 be placed in the record, and that consideration be given to placing pages 128 to 133, which do have a number of figures that I think will be of interest for the record. Mr. ANDREWS. We shall place them in the record at this point. (The pages follow :) Fiscal year 1967 requires the payment of salary funds for one day in excess of the stated annual rates, or a total of 261 days. Fiscal 1968 will have only 260 days. -8,271 INCREASES 2. Ingrade increases and other anticipated increases in salary costs-- +30, 647 Funds are requested to cover the cost of within-grade increases and reallocations as follows: To provide staff for management study of the Copyright Office Estimated value of materials transferred to the Library of Congress : Class of items 33, 064 116, 424 +147, 071 +138, 800 $1,470, 249 Ratio of total income to obligations: 140 percent. The following table compares income and obligations for the fiscal years 1963 to 1968: There has been no increase in staff in the Register's Office since 1957. The Register, Deputy Register, Assistant Register, and General Counsel have spent a great deal of their time since 1961 working on the revision program. Because of this involvement with the revision program, there has been little time to study the equally important matter of improving the organizational structure of the Office in the light of the possibilities afforded by newly developing technology. The Office is also faced with a reorganization of the structure of the Office if the copyright revision bill becomes law. Such studies are advisable even without reference to the new bill. To supervise the studies we request a GS-14 Management Officer and a GS-12 Management Analyst. A GS-4 Secretary and a GS-4 Clerk will be necessary to support the management studies and the additional clerical work in the Register's Office. The Cataloging Division remained in a generally non-current situation although some improvement was made in 1966. Comparison of figures for the largest classes of registration (books and music) shows the following improvements: where the cataloging of books was current in not a single week of 1965, it was current 11 weeks in 1966; where the cataloging of music was current in only 3 weeks of 1965, it was current in 1966 for 28 weeks in the case of published music, and 11 weeks in unpublished music. The addition of 4 clerks (GS-4) is necessary to obtain and maintain currency in handling the anticipated workload. New positions requested: 4 GS-4 Clerks at $4,776_. Personnel benefits--. Total positions (4)----- Examining Division $19, 104 1,506 20, 610 The total workload for the Examining Division for 1968 is estimated at 377,600 cases. This figure includes the claims registered and cases involving rejections, correspondence, defective claims, and reexamination upon further sub mission. Between 13% and 15% of the cases are the more difficult ones requiring extended and technical correspondence. Because of the increase in new kinds of material, such as computer programs, being received for registration and the more complex nature of all the material in general, it has become necessary to examine the claims in greater depth. For these reasons, along with the increase in registrations, four additional positions are requested. There has been a sharp increase in titles searched in the Reference Search Section: 84,488 in 1965, 104,037 in 1966, and 125,168 estimated for 1967. Two searchers GS-7 are requested to enable the Division to continue to search and report copyright registration data promptly. Each year has brought an increase in the amount of mail handled, the connection of applications with their respective deposited items and fees, the preparation of master index cards, and files. 640,490 pieces of mail were received and dispatched in 1965; in 1966, the figure rose to 706,660. To handle the additional workload estimated in fiscal 1968 the Division will require an addtional 4 positions. Mr. ANDREWS. You are requesting a total of $2,471,000 for 1968, an increase of $138,800 over the 1967 appropriation; is that correct? BASIS FOR 15 NEW POSITIONS REQUESTED Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. As I indicated in my preliminary statement of these 18 positions, 15, at a cost of $83,360, were directly related to the business of registration, assignment, deposit, correspondence. In other words, handling the volume of applications for copyright registration and three of them are related to management study procedures with a view of mechanizing or automating or otherwise improving the operations of the Copyright Office. I would be glad if Mr. Kaminstein would elaborate on this. Mr. KAMINSTEIN. Mr. Chairman, the most important thing that has happened to us is the fact that less than a month ago the House passed H.R. 2512, which is a complete revision of the copyright law. That bill is now before the Senate Judiciary Committee. If that bill becomes law the operations of the Copyright Office will be changed markedly. We would have to take care of a much greater volume of work gradually building up over the years. It would have an immediate impact in such areas as the registration of jukeboxes, some 468,000 of them, which we would do under section 116 of the new bill. The Register is designated in the statute as a "passive trustee❞ to turn over the sums collected to the District court and to recover his expenses in running the operation before he turns over this fund. More important, I think, from the viewpoint of the country at large the Copyright Office stands at a turning point. It is estimated that by 1980, the information industries will account for half the national gross product. A good many of these industries depend on the copyright law for protection-publishing, broadcasting, motion pictures, et cetera. This means that there is a remarkable development, almost a revolution, going on in this entire area and this accounts in part for the difficulties encountered by the bill. MAJOR FEATURES OF THE REVISION BILL Mr. ANDREWS. You are telling us that if the copyright bill recently passed by the House, now pending in the Senate, becomes law, then that new bill will have an impact on the operation of your Copyright Office? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. A very marked one. Mr. ANDREWS. You will need more employees? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. Over a period, yes. Mr. ANDREWS. Over what period? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. As the volume builds up. Right now our great need is for planning. The revision bill, if enacted this year, would go into effect January 1, 1969. We would need at least a year or more to plan for the kind of operation we would have to conduct. Mr. ANDREWS. You are expert in the field of copyrights. What are the glaring differences between the new law and the old law? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. The fact that your old law was written in 1909. Mr. ANDREWS. That is a long time ago, but some of our best laws are the oldest laws. We have not had any better laws since the Ten Commandments were written. Mr. KAMINSTEIN. If we could operate under those Mr. ANDREWs. We would have a better world. Mr. KAMINSTEIN. That is right. Mr. ANDREWS. Some people have no more respect for the Ten Commandments than they have for the Constitution of the United States. What are some of the glaring differences between the new law, if it becomes law-the bill that was passed by the House and now pending in the Senate-and the old 1909 copyright law. Mr. KAMINSTEIN. Under the 1909 law you did not have to deal with the question of motion pictures. That came into the law in 1912. In |