CONTU

CONTU, or the Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, was established in 1974 by United States Congress to study issues associated with copyrighted works in computers and computer-related works. It has been argued that the Commission erred in recommending the extension of copyright to machine-readable computer programs, because of the utility rule.

CONTU is not to be confused with CONFU, a 1997 "conference on fair use" organized by Bruce Lehman, then Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks.