(We believe that the rights here involved should not depend upon whether the draftsmen of copyright grants affected by this section remembered to include the term "extension".) MEMBER PUBLISHERS, AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHERS COUNCIL, INC., AS OF Abelard-Schuman, Ltd.; 6 West 57th Street; New York, New York 10019 American Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc.; 52 Vanderbilt Avenue; New York, New American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.; 551 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York 10017 American Library Association; 50 East Huron Street; Chicago, Illinois 60611 American Management Association, Inc.; 135 West 50th Street; New York, New York 10020 Arco Publishing Company, Inc.; 219 Park Avenue, So.; New York, New York 10003 Association Press; 291 Broadway; New York, New York 10007 Atheneum Publishers; 122 East 42nd Street; New York, New York 10017 A. S. Barnes & Company; Box 421; Cranbury, New Jersey 08512 Barnes & Noble, Inc.; 105 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York 10003 Basic Books Publishing Co., Inc.; 404 Park Avenue, So.; New York, New York 10016 Beacon Press; 25 Beacon Street; Boston, Massachusetts 02108 W. A. Benjamin, Inc.; 1 Park Avenue; New York, New York 10016 The Bethany Press; 2640 Pine Boulevard; Box 179; St. Louis, Missouri 63166 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.; 4300 West 62nd Street; Indianapolis, Indiana 46206 Bollingen Foundation; 140 East 62nd Street; New York, New York 10021 George Braziller, Inc.; 1 Park Avenue; New York, New York 10016 The British Book Centre, Inc.; 122 East 55th Street; New York, New York 10022 Broadman Press; 127 Ninth Avenue, No.; Nashville, Tennessee 37203 Cambridge University Press; 32 East 57th Street; New York, New York 10022 The Caxton Printers, Ltd.; Caldwell, Idaho 83605 Childrens Press, Inc.; Jackson Blvd. & Racine Avenue; Chicago, Illinois 60607 Chilmark Press; 941 Park Avenue; New York, New York 10028 Chilton Company; 525 Locust Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 The Christian Science Publishing Co.; One Norway Street; Boston, Massachusetts 02115 College & University Press Services, Inc.; 263 Chapel Street; New Haven, Connecticut 06513 Columbia University Press; 440 West 110th Street; New York, New York 10025 Concordia Publishing House; 3558 So. Jefferson Avenue; St. Louis, Missouri 63118 Cornell University Press; 124 Roberts Place; Ithaca, New York 14851 Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.; 58 East 68th Street; New York, New York 10021 Cowles Communications Inc.; 488 Madison Avenue; New York, New York 10022 Marcel Dekker Inc.; 95 Madison Avenue; New York, New York 10016 Dodd, Mead & Company; 79 Madison Avenue; New York, New York 10016 E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.; 201 Park Avenue, So.; New York, New York 10003 Fawcett World Library : 67 West 44th Street; New York, New York 10036 Follett Publishing Company; 1010 West Washington Blvd.; Chicago, Illinois 60607 Fordham University Press; 441 East Fordham Road; New York, New York 10458 Fortress Press; 2900 Queen Lane; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129 W. H. Freeman & Company; 660 Market Street; San Francisco, California 94104 Friendship Press; 475 Riverside Drive; New York, New York 10027 Funk & Wagnalls Company (Incl. Wilfred Funk, Inc.); 360 Lexington Avenue; Garrard Publishing Co.; 1607 No. Market Street; Champaign, Illinois 61820 K. S. Giniger Company, Inc.; 100 Avenue of the Americas; New York, New York 10013 Stephen Greene Press; 120 Main Street; Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 The Grolier Society; 575 Lexington Avenue; New York, New York 10022 Hawthorn Books, Inc.; 70 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York 10011 Hill & Wang, Inc.; 141 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York 10010 Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.; 383 Madison Avenue; New York, New York 10017 Indiana University Press; 10th & Morton Streets; Bloomington, Indiana 47401 Industrial Press; 93 Worth Street; New York, New York 10013 Iowa State University Press; Press Building; Ames, Iowa 50012 Jewish Publication Society of America; 222 No. 15th Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 The Johns Hopkins Press; Homewood; Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Johnson Publishing Company; 1820 So. Michigan Avenue; Chicago, Illinois 60616 J. B. Lippincott Company; East Washington Square; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105 Little, Brown & Company; 34 Beacon Street; Boston, Massachusetts 02106 Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co.; 419 Park Avenue, So.; New York, New York 10016 Louisiana State University Press; University Station; Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Loyola University Press; 3441 No. Ashland Avenue; Chicago, Illinois 60657 Macfadden-Bartell Corp. ; 205 East 42nd Street; New York, New York 10017 Macrae-Smith Company; 225 So. 15th Street, Lewis Tower Bldg.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.; 330 West 42nd Street; New York, New York 10036 David McKay Company, Inc.; 750 Third Avenue; New York, New York 10017 Meredith Publishing Company, Inc.; 1716 Locust Street; Des Moines, Iowa 50303 Michigan State University Press; Box 752; East Lansing, Michigan 48824 The M.I.T. Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 William Morrow & Company, Inc.; 425 Park Avenue, So.; New York, New York 10016 The New American Library, Inc.; 1301 Avenue of the Americas; New York, New York 10019 New York Graphic Society Ltd.; 140 Greenwich Avenue; Greenwich, Connecticut 06830 New York University Press; Washington Square; New York, New York 10003 Ottenheimer: Publishers, 1330 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21208 Prentice-Hall, Inc.; 70 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York 10011 G. P. Putnam's Sons; 200 Madison Avenue; New York, New York 10016 Random House, Inc.; 457 Madison Avenue; New York, New York 10022 The Reader's Digest; Pleasantville, New York 10570 The Rockefeller University Press; York. Ave. & East **th Street; New York, New York 10021 Koy Publishers, Inc.; 30 East 74th Street; New York, New York 10021 Rutgers University Press; 30 College Avenue; New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 St. Martin's Press, Inc.; 175 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York 10010 W. B. Saunders Company; West Washington Square; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105 Scarecrow Press, Inc.; 52 Liberty Street, Box 656; Metuchin, New Jersey 08840 The Seabury Press, Inc.; 815 Second Avenue; New York, New York 10017 Sheed &Ward; 64 University Place; New York, New York 10003 Simon & Schuster, Inc.; 630 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York 10020 Southern Illinois University Press; Carbondale, Illinois 62901 Springer-Verlag-New York, Inc.; 175 Fifth Avenue; New York, New York 10010 The Stackpole Company; Cameron & Kelker Streets, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Stanford University Press; Stanford, California 94305 Syracuse University Press; Box 87, University Station; Syracuse, New York 13210 Taplinger Publishing Company; 29 East 10th Street; New York, New York Union of American Hebrew Congregations; 838 Fifth Avenue; New York, New United Synagogue Book Service; 218 East 70th Street; New York, New York 10021 University of Alabama Press; Drawer 2877; University, Alabama 35486 University of California Press; Berkeley, California 94720 University of Chicago Press; 5750 Ellis Avenue; Chicago, Illinois 60637 University of Illinois Press; Urbana, Illinois 61801 University of Miami Press; P. O. Box 8104; Coral Gables, Florida 33124 University of Michigan Press; 615 East University; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 University of Micro Films; 313 No. First Street; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107 University of Minnesota Press; 2037 University Avenue, S.E.; Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515 University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma 73069 University of Pennsylvania Press, 372 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7532-University Station, Austin, Texas 78712 University of Washington Press, 1405 N.E. 40th Street, Seattle, Washington Vanguard Press, Inc., 424 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10017 D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 120 Alexander Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08541 The Viking Press, Inc., 625 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022 Re: S. 597-H.R. 2512-Section 601(a). WEIL GOTSHAL & MANGES, Copyrights, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the Capitol, Washington, D.C. GENTLEMEN: As attorneys for American Book Publishers Council, Inc., we write in opposition to a letter of James H. French, Esq., counsel for the Book Manufacturers' Institute, filed with you on or just prior to July 5, 1967, copy of which letter was forwarded to Mr. Robert W. Frase, Associate Managing Director of the Council. Mr. Frase and the writer were out of the country when the letter arrived. Section 601(a) provides that the prohibiton contained in that Section is to apply to a work consisting predominantly of nondramatic literary material. This means that if, for example, a work consists preponderantly of pictorial matter it is not covered by the Section. BMI now seeks to change this plain meaning by incorporating a new provision in your Committee's Report. This would have the effect of interpreting this Section so that "preponderantly" would not have its ordinary dictionary meaning of "preponderating; superior in weight, force, influence, number, etc.; predominant." (American College Dictionary-1962). BMI asks that an explanation of "preponderantly" in the Committee Report should require that a work consisting of both literary and pictorial matter should be judged to consist preponderantly of literary material when that material is essential to convey the information or ideas, and the nonliterary material is principally illustrative of, or ancillary to, the text, notwithstanding that the ancillary picorial material may physically occupy more space in the book than the literary material. We submit that administrative it will be onerous enough for Customs officials to make judgments in conformity with the dictionary usage of the terms "preponderant." To compel those officials to consider and determine what literary material is essential to convey the information or ideas involved would not only require them to be literary critics, but would necessitate their carefully reading and appraising every detail of entire works. The application of such a formula would, we submit, be neither desirable nor workable. We urge that this new request of BMI be denied. HORACE S. MANGES. AMERICAN BROADCASTING CO., INC., Re: Hearings on S. 597 (90th Congress, first session). Counsel, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Subcommittee, Senate Committee I respectfully request that the statement be made a part of the record of the hearing on the Bill. Your courteous cooperation in the matter is very much appreciated. The Subcommittee may be interested in knowing that Harry Olsson has been a General Attorney of the American Broadcasting Company since 1962 and before that for nine years was employed as an attorney by the National Broadcasting Company. Since 1958 he has been a member of the Panel of Consultants on General Revision of Copyright Law, appointed by the Librarian of Congress and chaired by the Register of Copyrights. Sincerely, MORTIMER WEINBACH. STATEMENT OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING CO., A DIVISION OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC. Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, we shall confine these remarks to opposing the suggestion of the Record Industry Association of America, several of the record companies and The National Committee for the Recording Arts, whose representatives testified before you on March 21st and April 11th that the copyright protection which is proposed to be extended for the first time to sound recordings be further extended to include a performing right in such sound recordings. The suggestion has been incorporated in a proposed amendment to S. 597 by Senator Williams. ABC fully supports the statements of Douglas A. Anello, Esq., General Counsel for the National Association of Broadcasters and of the National Broadcasting Company made April 12th in opposition to the creation of such a right. In addition we desire to state our opposition to the extension to sound recordings of such a performing right for the following reasons. Section 1.e. of our present Copyright Act was incorporated in our law in 1909. That section provides in part that "as a condition of extending the copyright control to such mechanical reproductions, that whenever the owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted or knowingly acquiesced in the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, any other person may make similar use of the copyrighted work upon payment to the copyright proprietor of a royalty of 2 cents on each such |