S. HRG. 98-597

VIDEO AND AUDIO HOME TAPING

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 31

A BILL TO AMEND TITLE 17 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE WITH RESPECT TO HOME RECORDING AND VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING DEVICES AND MEDIA, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

AND

S. 175

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

29-034 O

OCTOBER 25, 1983

Serial No. J-98-75

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON 1984

S. 31, a bill to amend title 17 of the United States Code with respect to home

recording and video and audio recording devices and media, and for other

purposes

S. 175, a bill to amend title 17 of the United States Code to exempt the

private noncommercial recording of copyrighted works on video recorders

from copyright infringement

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Ladd, David, Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, accompanied by

Dorothy Schrader, General Counsel and Associate Register for Legal Af-

fairs; David Leibowitz, Policy Planning Adviser; and Marilyn Kretsinger,

Senior Attorney Adviser....

Gortikov, Stanley M., president, Recording Industry Association of America,

Inc.; Dr. Alan Greenspan, Townsend & Greenspan, New York, N.Y.; Solo-

mon Dutka, chief executive officer, Audits & Surveys, New York, N.Y.; and

George David Weiss, president, AGAC/The Songwriters Guild

Valenti, Jack, president, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.; Kay

Peters, chairman, Telecommunications Policy Committee, Screen Actors'

Guild; and Jack Golodner, director, Department for Professional Employees,

AFL-CIO.

Ferris, Charles, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., Wash-

ington, D.C.; Dr. Nina W. Cornell, of Cornell, Pelcovits & Brenner, Wash-

ington, D.C.; Carol Tucker Foreman, of Foreman & Co., Washington, D.C.;

Edward J. Foster, president, Diversified Science Laboratories, West Read-

ing, Conn.; and David Richardson, vice president, Yankelovich, Skelly &

White, Inc., New York, N.Y

ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED

Cornell, Nina W.:

3

38

51

73

276

340

Testimony

400

Prepared statement

402

Critique of "Home Taping in America: 1983, Extent and Impact"

419

Dutka, Solomon:

Prepared statement

343

Articles by Roger Piantadosi, from the Washington Post, Weekend, Octo-

ber 21, 1983:

"Memories Are Made of This".

380

"Farewell to Film: Videotape Is the Future for the Past"

380

“Reaching Beyond Home Movies: Wider Audiences for Your Art”.

385

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