Copyright term, film labeling, and film preservation legislation : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 989, H.R. 1248, and H.R. 1734 ... June 1 and July 13, 1995 (1996)

Record Details:

Title:
Copyright term, film labeling, and film preservation legislation : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 989, H.R. 1248, and H.R. 1734 ... June 1 and July 13, 1995
Date:
1996
Publisher:
Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office
Volume:
Copyright term, film labeling, and film preservation legislation : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 989, H.R. 1248, and H.R. 1734 ... June 1 and July 13, 1995
Leaf #:
000135
Language:
English
Subjects:
Copyright -- United States, Copyright -- Motion pictures United States","Motion pictures -- Labeling United States","Motion pictures -- Conservation and restoration United States
Collection:
Books and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Boston Public Library
Sponsor:
Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

129 Finally, Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act already provides remedies to ensure that consumers are not deceived. Not only does the Lanham Act exist to protect consumers from misrepresentation, it also provides remedies for individual artists whose reputation is injured as a result of misrepresentation. In the event a director, screenwriter, or cinematographer felt that edits had seriously altered his work, he or she could pursue relief under the Lanham Act. The landmark case on this subject is Gilliam v. ABC, Inc.. 538 F2d 14 (2nd Cir. 1976). In that case, the court found that an allegation by Monty Python's creator of a mutilation of his work 24 minutes of a 90 minute Monty Python work were edited out by ABC stated a cause of action under Sec. 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1 125(a). In a March 4, 1 992 letter, then Commerce Department General Counsel Wendell Wilkie recognized that the broad application of Section 43 has protected authors from misrepresentation.' It opposed the amendment of the Lanham Act to create additional rights for film artists.^ In a 1989 Patent and Trademark Office report to Congress, it found that Section 43 is functioning in the way that Congress intended, as a broad, unifonn law regulating unfair competition, and that amending the law to cover one specific industry was ' March 4, 1992 Letter Of Commerce Department General Counsel, Wendell Wilkie to Honorable William Hughes, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration, regarding H.R. 3051 ("Film Disclosure Act of 1991"). 'Id. 14