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 #:
000142
Language:
English
Subjects:
Copyright -- United States, Copyright -- Motion pictures United States","Motion pictures -- Labeling United States","Motion pictures -- Conservation and restoration United States
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
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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136 Academy Award nomination. In other words, as writers go, I'm a happy camper. The term writer has become so commonplace and the word artist so carelessly flung about in recent years, it might be worth a few seconds of your time for me to describe what I actually do. I'm a craftsperson, an artisan, a fabricator. I make things. Exactly the way a leather-worker makes belts or a furniture maker makes a chair, I make stories. Instead of leather or wood, my medium is words. I shape them, cut them, polish and trim, until IVe made a story that feels interesting, durable and true. , We are here today to discuss the fate of what I make. I will address my main remarks to H.R. 989 Copyright Term Extension Act of 1995. But I would also like to state my position and the position of Writers Guild of America, East on H.R. 1734 National Film Preservation Act of 1995 and H.R. 1248 Film Disclosure Act of 1995. I support any effort to protect my work from mutilation by future owners and exploiters. 1 mentioned that I had written the screenplay of a film called "Hair." Let me relate briefly how the film came about. It was because of the passion of one man, the director Milos Forman, a Czech. While living vmder a Communist regime, he visited New York. He was young, adventiirous and penniless, and ended up sleeping for several nights in Central Park, where he was befriended by a bunch of people called hippies. The anarchy of those few nights, the joy, the friendship, effected him profoundly.