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 #:
000410
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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402 3. The Limits of Cultural Policy If, after further study. Congress opted to combine a prolongation of the basic life-plus-fifty tern with a strengthened right of termination, as outlined above, it should consider further undertaking to clarify the frontier between copyright law and other intellectual property laws, with a view to limiting trade distortions in the general products market. Nhile this opens a topic that this statement cannot deeply cover, there are two closely related phenomena that require attention in this regard. One is a short-term need to reinforce the crumbling line of demarcation that historically separated artistic from industrial property, pending the formulation of new approaches to the protection of borderline subject matters that fit imperfectly within the classical patent and copyright paradigms. The other is the long-term need to develop such new approaches, in order to reduce the pressure on the world's intellectual property system while elevating the level of investment in routine, subpatentable innovations generally.^ Fortunately, the federal appellate courts have facilitated the first task by re invigorating the rule of Baker v. Selden"* as a barrier to copyright protection for functionally dictated '° See generally. Legal Hybrids, supra note 4, at 25002557; see also Collapse of the Patent-Copvright Dichotomy. bUBTA note 4, at 504-19 ("Empirical Limits of the Classical Bipolar Structure") . '« Baker v. Selden. 101 U.S. 99 (1879).