COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE FIRST SESSION ON S. 1198 TAIN RIGHTS OF ATTRIBUTION AND INTEGRITY TO AUTHORS OF AND S. 1253 HIRE JUNE 20, SEPTEMBER 20, AND OCTOBER 24, 1989 Serial No. J-101-25 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 48 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware, Chairman ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania PAUL SIMON, Illinois GORDON J. HUMPHREY, New Hampshire HERBERT KOHL, Wisconsin RONALD A. KLAIN, Chief Counsel JEFFREY J. PECK, General Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona, Chairman EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa MARK DISLER, Minority Chief Counsel CONTENTS Wednesday, September 20, 1989 ....... Tuesday, October 24, 1989........... STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS 757 759 194 PROPOSED LEGISLATION S. 1198, a bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to provide certain rights of attribution and integrity to authors of works of visual art ..... S. 1253, a bill to amend the copyright law regarding work made for hire ........... CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1989 Edward Damich, professor of law, George Mason University Law School, Robert Gorman, Kenneth W. Gemmill professor of law, University of Pennsyl- vania Law School, Philadelphia, PA. Jack E. Brown, Esq., law firm of Brown & Bain, Phoenix, AZ.. Linda Cawley, on behalf of Peter H. Karlen, attorney at law, La Jolla, CA ....... Tom van Sant, artist, Santa Monica, CA ......... Marc F. Wilson, director, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO ....... ADDITIONAL SUBMISSION FOR THE RECORD Statement of Ralph Oman, Register of Coyprights, on S. 1198... Hon. Thad Cochran, a U.S. Senator from the State of Mississippi ............. Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights, Washington, DC, accompanied by Doro- thy Schrader, general counsel, and William Patry, Policy Planning Advisor Richard Weisgrau, executive director, American Society of Magazine Photog- Jay Maisel, photographer, New York, NY .......... Don Martin, cartoonist, Studios of Don Martin, Miami, FL, representing the Graphic Artists Guild ............... Tom Clancy, author, Huntington, MD........... Michael R. Klipper, Leventhal, Senter & Lerman, Washington, DC, represent- ing the Committee for America's Copyright Community... Victor Kovner, chairman, legal affairs committee, Magazine Publishers of America, New York, NY............ Nicholas A. Veliotes, president, Association of American Publishers, Washing- ton, DC ............................ R. Jack Fishman, publisher, Lakeway Publishers, Morristown, TN, represent- ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD 1989 ....... Washington, DC, September 20, 1989 ..... 3, 1989 ......... tober 13, 1989........... October 16, 1989................ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1989 eral counsel; Eric Schwartz and William Patry, Policy Planning Advisors .... Peter Nolan, vice president and counsel, the Walt Disney Co., representing the Motion Picture Association of America ............... Producers .......... America Arts ......... accompanied by Stanley Cortez, cinematographer ........... 13, Baltimore, MD, representing the National Association of Broadcasters and the Association of Independent Television Stations, Inc.................... Jan De Masse, president, Video Place, representing the Video Software Deal ers Association, accompanied by Bert Wides, counsel, law firm of Arent, Fox 762 1035 1065 1090 1105 1117 1150 1181 1207 1223 ........... ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD Producers Guild of America, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA, October 26, 1989 ....... 1248 ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED Testimony .......................... Senator DeConcini... Senator Leahy. Cawley, Linda: Testimony on behalf of Peter Karlen Responses to followup questions submitted by Senator Leahy ............. Testimony 564 Cochran, Hon. Thad: Testimony ........ 196 Prepared statement 198 Counter, J. Nicholas, III: Testimony ...... 1065 Prepared statement, 1067 ..... 1181 1184 1194 1202 Counter, J. Nicholas, III—Continued Responses to followup questions submitted by Senator DeConcini .............. ....................................................... Prepared statement ........... Responses to followup questions submitted by Senator DeConcini ............. DeConcini, Hon. Dennis: Statement of Hon. Edward J. Markey, a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts De Masse, Jan: Testimony ..... .................................................................... Prepared statement ... Responses to followup questions submitted by Senator DeConcini ............ Testimony .... “An Overview of the Moral Right," memorandum prepared by Robert J. Brinkmann, general counsel, National Newspaper Asso ciation .............. Summary of testimony .......... Testimony Responses to followup questions submitted by Senator Grassley ... Testimony ....... A partial list of prominent motion pictures photographed by A.S.C. members ...... "He Is A True Artist," article, Third Annual ASC Awards................ Prepared statement of Stanley Cortez, A.S.C., past president of the Amer ican Society of Cinematographers ........... Responses to followup questions submitted by Senator DeConcini Gorman, Robert: Testimony Prepared statement ....... Testimony ....... Senator Grassley....... .......................... Letter from Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, June 19, 1989.... Prepared statement ..... Senator DeConcini Senator Leahy. Kennedy, Hon. Edward: Comparison of Artists Rights Bills, fact sheet....... Testimony ........... Responses to followup questions submitted by Senator DeConcini................ Testimony...... Attachment A: List of members of the Committee for America's Copyright Community........ munity.... |