Several presentations were made at the eighth meeting of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU). The president of the Association for Computing Machinery addressed the issue of interactions of computer technology and economics, education, and society. A representative from the Center for Educational Media (NICEM) discussed the relation of the information storage and retrieval system of nonprint materials to the proposed copyright changes. Representatives from Documentation Associates Information Services, Inc. presented their views of copyright implications to the information brokerage business, especially the legality of their services and their accessibility to data bases. Representatives from Rand Corporation and Stanford Research Institute discussed respectively the technological advances of the computer, and implications and cases of computer abuses. Issues dealing with the copyrightability of computer programs, protecting investment in computer software, enforcement problems, fair use, and possible results of copyright legislation on users and producers were also covered in presentations and commission staff discusssions. (SC)