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 #:
000278
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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270 [The prepared statement of Ms. Miller follows:] Prepared Statement of Betty Kern Miller Dear Chairman Moorhead: I am the daughter and only child of the late Jerome Kern, and I have been following with great interest your proposal to extend the period of copyright protection in this country. I am grateful to you for having introduced legislation that would extend copyright protection in this country for my father's work and for all other intellectual property for an additional twenty years, and I urge you to continue to support that legislation and to attempt to have it enacted into law as soon as possible. My health has not permitted me to travel to New York to see the current successful revival of SHOW BOAT for which my father wrote the music, and it does not permit me to come to Washington for the hearing that is scheduled for July 13th. I wanted you to understand however, that my absence does not mean that I am not fully in support of the proposed extension of copyright and grateful to you for what you are doing in support of American copyrights . Writing with such wonderful lyricists as Oscar Hammerstein II, P.G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer and Ira Gershwin to name but a few, my father wrote many of our best known and loved songs and musical scores . In addition to the score of SHOW BOAT, among the more than 1,000 songs he wrote are "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", "All The Things You Are", "A Fine Romance", "The Way Your Look Tonight", "The Last Time I Saw Paris", "I'm Old Fashioned" and "Long Ago and Far Away". Under the current law his earlier works have been falling into the public domain each year for some time. For example, his songs "How'd You Like to Spoon With Me", "They Didn't Believe Me" and "Till The Clouds Roll By" are already in the public domain, and "Look For The Silver Lining" will fall into the public domain on January 1, 1996, if copyright extension legislation is not passed this year.