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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126 publishing, software pacl<aging and advertisements are collaborative efforts in which numerous individuals contribute to a creative work. If H.R. 1248-type requirements were applied to the broad range of these copyrighted industries, a breakdown in the publishing and distribution of copyrighted works could occur. For example: • Would a newspaper be unable to submit its daily edition for edited electronic publication because it was unable to comply with labeling and notification of its 40 reporters? • Would a magazine miss its printing deadline because it had not been able to notify a freelance photographer that last year's picture needed to be cropped for this week's story? • Would the publisher of a textbook be unable to meet a deadline to update a textbook to reflect new developments in science, because it could not reach agreement with the principal editor on the content of the label? • Would an advertiser be unable to adopt an ad for next month's publication because of burdensome requirements to notify an array of contributors to the ad, including writers, graphic artists, creative directors, photographers and others? • Would a recording company be unable to rearrange the order of an album's songs 11