Additional material Athdavits and letters concerning licensing of copyrighted products to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., prepared statement.. American Guild of Authors and Composers and the National Muse #tatement.. Page 743 178 827 232 1586, 1641 925, 947 Biener, Andrew, director, Legislative Department, AFL CIO, letter 1333 849 389, 962, 965 "Cable Television Under the 1972 Rules and the Impact of Alternative Copyright Fee Proposals," by Bridger M. Mitchell ... Cartis, Robert W., American Chemical Society, letter dated June 25, 1975, to Hon. Robert W. Kastenmeier. "Copyrightability of Typeface and Type Font Design," statement of pom.tict, Casteraft Industries, Inc. Coyle, Maurice J, M D., Department of Radiology, Providence Hos- Davis Hal C, president, American Federation of Musicians, letter 1020 317 243 1228 215 1638 1194 689 1651 pared statement Harris Jares A, prendent, National Education Association, pre General irense agreement, restaurants, taverns, nightel itm, and simisar estatust me.ta Feast, Les tard. National Mse P.blishers' Association, Ine, letter 263 385 Hạ tower, John B chairman, Advocate for the Arts Association 274 261 215 Ivy. Enma 6, RN, Wrangel General Histital Wrangell, Alaska, artter dated July 22, 1975, to Hồn Don Young Krates, Kevin J. general counsel, Federal Lalitarians Association, Bert and general counsel American Society of Composers Additional material-Continued Marshall, Nancy H., director, Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Service, Madison, Wis., letter dated May 6, 1975, to Hon. Robert W. Page Mathews, Hon. David, Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, prepared statement... Mercer, Johnny, composer, prepared statement. 215 261 381 1034 Nathan, Robert R., president, Robert R. Nathan Associates, Inc., 825, 1383 National Music Publishers Association and American Guild of Authors Nimmer, Prof. Melville B., professor of law, UCLA School of Law, Norwood, Frank W., executive secretary, Joint Council on Educational Parker, Michael, director, Typographical Development Mergenthaler 920 1038 883 1041 Passano, William M., chairman of the board, Williams & Wilkins Co., 260 214 Rayin, Mona (R.N.), instructor coordinator of R.N. Programs and 1017 1016 Ringer, Barbara, Register of Copyrights, letter dated June 6, 1975, to 1008 Ruck, Don V., vice president, National Hockey League, prepared statement. 813 Schrader, Dorothy M., General Counsel, Copyright Office, prepared statement.. "The Great American Rip-Off," by Mike Terranova, a pamphlet Stevens, Hon. Ted, a U.S. Senator From the State of Alaska, letter 1015 1639 207 1265 Times Mirror, prepared statement.. 852 "Typeface Design Protection," statement of position of the American 1226 Valenti, Jack, president, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., September 10, 1975........ 1724 November 7, 1975.. 1736 Vanantwerpen, F. J., president, Council of Engineering and Scientific 369 Wally, Alan I., president, Record and Tape Association of America, 1263 367 Wigron, Harold E., National Education Associations 276 Young, Hồn. Don, a Representative in Congress From the State of Woodriff, Dr. Rav, Department of Chemistry, Montana State Univer- 265 214 Appendixes Appendix 1 - Teleprompter Corp memorandum on Constitutionality 1917 2051 2092 2124 COPYRIGHT LAW REVISION WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1975 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE on Courts, Civil Liberties, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 222, Rayburn House Othice Building, Hon. Robert W. Kastenmeier chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present. Representatives Kastenmeier, Danielson, Drinan, Pattison, Ka..k, and Wiggins. A present: Herbert Fuchs and Bruce A. Lehman, counsels; and Thomas E Mooney, asociate counsel. Mr. KASTENMEER. The committee will come to order. We have met ths morning to begin subcommittee hearings on H.R. 2223, introduced by the Chair, for the general revision of the copyright law. Ten years ago this month in this room the subcommittee began what turned out to be 22 days of public hearings on a bill having the same parpo, namely, the total revision of title 17, United States Code, the copyright law. The 13 hearings, followed by many subcommittee meetings, re, fed in a revis.on bill being reported to and passed by the House of Kentatives on April 11, 1967. The Senate, however, fa:led to act on at bl, and the House passed bill expired. In September 1974, when the Senate at last did pass a copyright law revision b.il, the involvement of the House Judiciary Committee in from nation of Nelson Rockefeller to be Vice President prevented He consideration of the measure during what was left of 1974. However, the Cot gress did enact legislation creating a National Com non New Tehnological Uses of Copyrighted Works, of which te Pros dent is to appoint the me tuber With the coming of 1975, Senator M-Clellan reintroduced the 1974 erate passwdi bod as > 22, and the Chur introduced an vient; al bill • House under the number H R. 2225 Title II of the bids S 22 and HR 2.3, go beyond providing copyright law revision, and provide pardest on, of ortamental designs of useful articles, I. a 11.tion, the subcommittee has before it two measures directly tested to the proposed revision. One of them, HR 545, introduced Jy our subcommittee col'cague, Mr. Danielson, would create a per for et a royalty as part of the bundle of rights known as copyright Leather, HR495, introduced by Mr. Won Pat, won,' laittor re tg of video tapes for transtu sion on hot,cott gruous cabe forvalot, systems, that is, in plays other than the 458 main, and Staten H.R. 2223, H.R. 5345, and H.R. 4965 will be placed in the record of the hearings at the conclusion of this statement. Article I, section 8 of the Federal Constitution empowers Congress "to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing to authors *** the exclusive right to their *** writings***." At the very least, therefore, Congress has the constitutional obligation to determine whether and to what extent the progress of the useful arts will be promoted by congressional grants of exclusivity for the writings of authors. The purpose of the pending legislation is, in short, to bring up to date the copyright law which has not been substantially revised since 1909. It should be our commitment to correct this neglect, for the great and growing acceleration of technology and the resultant new uses of copyrighted works have rendered much of the existing law inadequate and obsolete. The subcommittee is pleased, this morning, to open the hearings by welcoming witnesses from the Library of Congress. We have the Honorable John G. Lorenz, Acting Librarian of Congress; Abraham L. Kaminstein, former Register of Copyrights who went through the 1965-67 hearings with us, and Barbara Ringer, also an old friend, the present Register of Copyrights. Mr. Lorenz, will you begin? [H.R. 2223, H.R. 5345, and H.R. 4965 are as follows:] 947 CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 2223 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 28, 1975 M: KASTEN METER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com mittee on the Judi-iary A BILL For the general revision, of the Copyright Law t the 17 of the United States Code, and for other purposes. 1 He it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent tives of the 21 nited States of America in Congress issembled, 3 TITLE I GENERAL REVISION OF COPYRIGHT LAW Sg 101 T-tle 17 of th- United States Code, entitled “Copyrights”, sa hereby amser, fed in its entirety to read as follows 7 Chapter 1—SUBJECT MATTER AND SCOPE OF COPYRIGHT |