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The U.S. Copyright Office neither sets the price nor receives any direct revenue from the sale of the Copyright Cataloging database. Rather, access to these records is a service offered through the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) of the Library of Congress, which is mandated by Congress to provide this and other services to the public at a charge of production and distribution cost plus 10%. In fact, the mission of CDS is to share the Library's vast bibliographic resources with American libraries, the American people and the international information community on a cost-recovery basis.

These databases and their weekly updates require considerable personnel and other resources to maintain and deliver. Each year, CDS evaluates its implementation and maintenance costs and determines pricing of its many products based on these costs. At the close of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, 2007, CDS will make recommendations to Library management for cost adjustment on all its products and services, based upon its Congressional mandate.

Fortunately, recent cost savings realized within CDS are anticipated to result in a drop in the price of many services available from CDS, including the Copyright Cataloging database subscription service. Any new pricing structure will appear first on the CDS Web site www.loc.gov/cds/ in late October or early November 2007, then in the 2008 CDS Catalog of Products in January 2008.

Finally, the Copyright database is accessible to all free of charge on a record-by-record basis through the U.S. Copyright Office Web site at www.copyright.gov/records/.

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