COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS
(Audio and Video Recorders)

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS

ON

S. 1758

A BILL TO AMEND TITLE 17 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE TO
EXEMPT THE PRIVATE NONCOMMERCIAL RECORDING OF
COPYRIGHTED WORKS ON VIDEO RECORDERS FROM COPY-
RIGHT INFRINGEMENT

96-601 O

NOVEMBER 30, 1981 AND APRIL 21, 1982

Serial No. J-97-84

Printed for the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1982

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NA OT MIJ A

NO DEIXO STROM THURMOND, South Carolina, Chairman TIMIXS CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware

PAUL LAXALT, Nevada
ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah
ROBERT DOLE, Kansas

TEKNIKI EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts

ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming
JOHN P. EAST, North Carolina
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa
JEREMIAH DENTON, Alabama
ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia

HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio

DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona

PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont

MAX BAUCUS, Montana

HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama