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)

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432 The decline in public funding is perhaps the most discouraging finding of Film Preservation 1993. Federal support for the preservation copying program of the Library of Congress and for the National Endowment for the Arts film preservation grants, administered by the American Film Institute, has fallen to less than half of its 1980 level, adjusted for inflation. Put in terms of the laboratory work that federal grant dollars can buy, the decline is even more striking: It falls to about one-sixth of the 1980 level. There is no easy fix to the funding crisis. And yet, new fiinds to implement new ideas must be central to any national plan. In this era of reduced federal spending, it would be quixotic simply to recommend an increase in direct appropriations commensurate with the problem. Instead, this plan proposes a new type of funding strategy based on shared public and private responsibilities. In the following pages. Redefining Film Preservation takes up each of these three broad issues in turn: physical preservation in Part 3, public and educational access in Part 4, and funding in Part 5. The problems explored here are large ones, but the cooperation displayed in the creation of this plan suggests that they need not be insoluble. Redefining Film Preservation