DEFINITION OF WORK MADE FOR HIRE

IN THE COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1976

U.S. Comares. Senate

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 2044

A BILL TO AMEND THE COPYRIGHT LAW REGARDING WORK FOR HIRE

OCTOBER 1, 1982

Serial No. J-97-146

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1983

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CONTENTS

PROPOSED LEGISLATION

Text of S. 2044-A bill to amend the copyright law regarding work for hire.....

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1982

Brickman, Robin, Graphic Artists Guild, Providence, R.I.; accompanied by

Tad Crawford, counsel; June Roth, president, American Society of Journal-

ists and Authors; and Irwin Karp, Authors League of America

Hoopes, Townsend, president, Association of American Publishers, accompa-

nied by Charles Butts, firm of Houghton Mifflin; John Robling, Encyclopae-

dia Britannica; Jon Baumgarten, copyright_counsel; and E. Gabriel Perle,

vice president, Time, Inc., accompanied by Barry Agdern, chairman, Copy-

right Subcommittee, Legal Affairs Committee; Alfred H. Wassestrom,

former chairman, Legal Affairs Committee, Magazine Publishers Associ-

ation..

Bernstein, Elmer, Screen Composers of America; and Richard Colby, Senior

Distribution and Marketing Counsel, Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures....

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Mathias, Senator Charles McC., Jr. (acting chairman):

The Society of Photographer and Artist Representatives, by Edith Leon-
ian....

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American Business Press, by Robert A. Saltzstein and Stephen M. Feld-