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Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Murphy.
STATEMENT OF EDWARD P. MURPHY, PRESffiENT AND CEO, NATIONAL MUSIC PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION, INC.
Mr. Murphy. Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee. I am Edward P. Murphy, president and chief executive officer of the National Music PubHshers' Association, Inc. [NMPA]. I am pleased to appear before you today to provide the American music publishing community's views on H.R. 989, the Cop3rright Term Extension Act of 1995.
NMPA represents more than 600 music publishers and NMPA's subsidiary, the Harry Fox Agency, serves as a licensing agent for more than 14,000 music publishers located in California, Tennessee, New York, and throughout the United States.
Music publishers generally speaking are holders of copyright in musical works. The publisher's role is to nurture the creativity of song writers and composers through artistic, professional and economic support. Following the creation of a musical work, the publisher functions as a promoter seeking recordings, performances and other modes of distribution.
The publisher is the business side a partnership with music creators. He or she administers the copyright in the work and takes steps to protect it from unauthorized exploitation, including acting as an advocate, sometimes individually and sometimes through NMPA, for strong cop3n*ight protection and enforcement throughout the world.
The music publisher also serves as a counselor in the overall development of the creator's career. For all of their contributions to the creative process, the music publishers enjoy a close partnership with their song writer and composer colleagues.
In light of the special role that the music publishers play in the creative process, and because of the strong bonds between publishers and songwriters and composers, NMPA is especially pleased to voice its support for term extension. The trade arguments in support of term extension are overwhelmingly persuasive. More and more the U.S. economy is supported by the production of intellectual property by American creators and its dissemination to an eager world market.
According to the economic study released by the International Intellectual Property Alliance in 1993, the American copyright industries accounted for nearly 4 percent of the gross domestic product and produced nearly $46 billion in foreign sales.
The benefits to the United States of maintaining a leadership position in advancing strong international copyright norms are selfevident. In numerous bilateral negotiations, in the North American Free Trade Agreement and in the Uruguay Round Agreement and on the trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, United States' persistence yielded improved levels of protection.
As the world's leading provider of copyright content, the United States charted the way for recognition of exclusive rental rights in certain works, for copyright protection for software, and for an adequate term of protection for sound recordings in countries that do not protect those works under copyright.