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STATEMENT OF GEORGE J. BARCO, GENERAL COUNSEL, PENNSYLVANIA CABLE TELEVISION ASSOCIATION

Mr. Chairman, Members of the Subcommittee, I am George J. Barco. For the past 17 years, I have served as General Counsel of Pennsylvania Cable Television Association. Pennsylvania is the state in which the cable television industry started, and there are some 300 CATV systems operating in over 1,100 communities-more than in any other state in the nationserving over 2,000,000 television viewers. It has been my privilege to serve as National Chairman (then known as President) of National Cable Television Association, and I was a member of its Board of Directors for 15 years. For the past year, I have served as member of the NCTA Coypright Committee. Also, for the past 20 years, I have been, and still am, a part owner and the president of several cable television companies.

By way of further introduction, I believe I should state a disclaimer, for the benefit of NCTA, and for the information of the Committee, that while I have been an active participant in the affairs of NCTA over the years, the views I am about to express on the copyright issue are my own, and in many respects do not correspond with the officially adopted views of NCTA as an organization. At the same time, let me state that I believe my views reflect those of many, many cable operators all over the country. There is no single matter which has concerned the CATV industry for the past 7 to 8 years more than copyright. Over this period, I have talked on a person-to-person basis with literally hundreds of cable operators and virtually every industry leader on the subject.

Let me state finally by way of introduction that I view my task today as awesome and the situation for the cable industry as critical, if not desperate. In the circumstances, I can only state the situation as I see it fully and frankly to the Committee, without regard to certain existing predelictions, interests and objectives among the forces interacting on the copyright issue, within and without NCTA. I am very appreciative for this opportunity of doing so.

In October, 1968, the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Association, following a careful consideration of the copyright issue, adopted what has been termed as the "Pennsylvania Position" on copyright. Its underlying principle is simply that television signals received "off-the-air" should not be subject to the payment of copyright fees so long as similar payments do not apply to reception by conventional antennas. The Position recognizes that copyright fees should be payable for copyrighted programs received by microwaving or similar long distance transportation, and that such microwaving should be subject to regulation in view of its impact on television broadcasting, copyright property rights, and the interrelated market patterns of both.1

While recognizing the legitimate interests of many who are interested in providing direct television program services, and a variety of other communication services in the metropolitan area by cable, the Pennsylvania Position urges that the television reception function for "off-the-air" signals by CATV should not be colored by the possible future developments of cable television, nor should the inherent rights in such reception be traded as a part of any compromise between the conflicting interests concerned in large city cable television development.

The Pennsylvania Position has received wide support in the industry throughout the nation for it was grounded on the basic concept and fact of CATV performing the community antenna reception function for signals received “off-theair". Further, it seemed incomprehensible that liability to copyright fees should depend on the accident of topography-or in the real life situation of the television viewer-whether he was living in the high area where a conventional antenna did the job, or whether he lived behind the hills or along the river where community antenna service was required or desirable to provide satisfactory television reception. How could there be any justification for requiring the subscribers to make an additional payment to the copyright owner who had already received payment in his contractual arrangements for the broadcasting, paid ultimately by the television viewers-including CATV subscribers in the advertising costs of purchased products? Besides, until recently the copyright owners made repeated public assurances that they were not interested in payments related to such television reception services, but were interested in only the large city markets where distant signals were to be imported.

1 Under the Pennsylvania Position, no copyright fees should be payable on reception provided of three stations, with the three major networks, and one independent station, whether the signal is received "off the air" or by microwave, in the interest of all members of the public receiving minimum television service.

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