COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1384
A BILL TO AMEND THE COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1976 TO CLARIFY THE

OPERATION OF THE DERIVATIVE WORKS EXCEPTION

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina, Chairman
CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware
PAUL LAXALT, Nevada

EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming

HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio JOHN P. EAST, North Carolina

DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa

PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont JEREMIAH DENTON, Alabama

HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania

PAUL SIMON, Illinois MITCH MCCONNELL, Kentucky

DENNIS W. SHEDD, Chief Counsel and Staff Director

Diana L. WATERMAN, General Counsel

DEBORAH G. BERNSTEIN, Chief Clerk
MARK H. GITENSTEIN, Minority Chief Counsel

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS

CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland, Chairman PAUL LAXALT, Nevada

PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah

HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming

DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona
STEVEN J. METALITZ, Chief Counsel and Staff Director

PAMELA S. BATSTONE, Chief Clerk

(II)

Specter, Hon. Arlen, a U.S. Senator from the State of Pennsylvania....

PROPOSED LEGISLATION

S. 1384, a bill to amend the Copyright Act of 1976 to clarify the operation of

the derivative works exception....

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Berman, Hon. Howard L., a U.S. Representative from the State of California...

Ringer, Barbara, former Register of Copyrights, Washington, DC... .................

Kay, Dean, executive vice president and general manager, Welk Music Group,

Santa Monica, CA, accompanied by Michael S. Oberman, counsel, of

Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, New York, NY; Irwin Karp,

counsel, the Authors League of America, Inc., New York, NY; and George

David Weiss, president, Songwriters Guild of America, New York, NY...........

ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED

Berman, Hon. Howard L.:

Testimony .......

Prepared statement ............

Karp, Irwin:

Testimony ..............................................

Prepared statement ............

Amended sections of title 17, U.S.C....

Kay, Dean:

Testimony ...

Prepared statement.

Letter to Hon. Arlen Specter, December 10, 1985..............

Enclosures: Letters from

Warner Bros. Music, December 3, 1985.

Chappell/Intersong Music Group—USA, December 2, 1985,

Famous Music Publishing Companies, December 2, 1985....

The Lowery Group of Music Publishing Companies, December 2,

1985.........................................

Peer-Southern Organization, December 3, 1985.................

September Music Corp., December 5, 1985 ..........

Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Inc., December 2, 1985 ............

Jobete Music Co., Inc., December 9, 1985.......

CBS Songs, December 10, 1985......

Acuff-Rose-Opryland Music, December 10, 1985.

Letter to Hon. Arlen Specter, December 23, 1985...

Enclosures: Letters from-

Almo Irving, December 16, 1985.

Al Gallico Music Corp., December 18, 1985 ............

Theodor Presser Co., December 10, 1985...

TRO—The Richmond Organization, December 11, 1985

Oberman, Michael S.:

Testimony ...........

Letters to Senator Arlen Specter, re: S. 1384:

December 3, 1985 ........

Enclosure: Respondents' petition for rehearing following the deci-