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 #:
000146
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
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140 a system that provides so many ways to alter and improve them— ways such as the hearing we are involved in today. But his eyes glaze over at these explanations. He is too young to understand, and the logic too complicated, and finally irrelevant to the essential issue, which is property, be it intellectual or physical—as 1 said earlier, H.R. 989 is about something at the very heart of our system... Property. Imagine for a moment how it would feel if your grandmother had left you an exquisite quilt of her own miaking, and after a certain time government officials appeared at your door and said. This qviilt has been in your family long enough, now it belongs to the world!?" Yet that's exactly what happens to the things I make during my life. H.R. 989 is about one thing— property. It's about how soon after people like me have made what we make, can the government, by law, take it away from us. At the moment, they must wait only fifty years. It is a small thing to ask that we be allowed to keep it in the family for another twenty. It is a modest request. I urge you to grant it. Thank you for this opportunity... and I hope yovir efforts will result in a change of law that I can hold up to my sons as an example of why our system and the extraordinary vigor of the arts it generates, are the envy of the world.