RONALD A. KLAIN, Chief Counsel
CYNTHIA C. HOGAN, Staff Director

THADDEUS E. STROM, Minority Chief Counsel and Staff Director

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS

DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona, Chairman

EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont
HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama

ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah
ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa

KAREN ROBB, Chief Counsel and Staff Director
MARK DISLER, Minority Chief Counsel

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CONTENTS

STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS

DeConcini, Hon. Dennis, a U.S. Senator from the State of Arizona
Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
accompanied by Elliot Alderman, Senior Attorney, General Counsel

Robert J. Cohen, president, Video Monitoring Services of America, testifying

on behalf of the International Association of Broadcast Monitors, New York,

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L. Ray Patterson, Pope Brock Professor of Law, University of Georgia, Ath-

ens, GA...

Harland W. Warner, president, Public Relations Society of America, Washing-

ton, DC

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Ed Moser, president, NewsCount, Phoenix, AZ

David Nimmer, attorney, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles, CA, testifying on

behalf of Turner Broadcasting System and the National Association of

Broadcasters

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ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED

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Cohen, Robert J.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Executive summary, "The Case for Saving Broadcast Monitoring: Preserv-

ing the Public's Right of Access to Broadcast Programming"

Moser, Ed: Testimony

Nimmer, David:

Testimony

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

Oman, Ralph:

Testimony

Prepared statement with summary

Patterson, L. Ray:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Warner, Harland W.: Testimony

APPENDIX

PROPOSED LEGISLATION

S. 1805, a bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to clarify news reporting

monitoring as a fair use exception to the exclusive rights of a copyright

owner

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ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD

Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee from Diane M. Morse, Dow, Lohnes

& Albertson, attorneys at law, July 8, 1992 ....

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Comments of Cox Enterprises, Inc

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