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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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 #:
000339
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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331 16 paid for a 56 year term. The Authors Guild of America declared, referring to the then existing 28-year renewal term and the proposed extension of that term by 19 years: [Book publishers] sit down and carefully estimate what their 50 percent share of those 28 years of earnings will be, and they pay a modest portion of it as an advance. I don't see how they'd be hurt one iota if they don't get the next 19 years ... . [T]hey haven't paid for it or bargained for it. They've simply computed the value of a 2 8 -year annuity, and they've had a full and fair opportunity to recover that and a profit as well.^' Similarly, the American Guild of Authors and Composers stated that [Music publishers] aren't bargaining for any more than 28 years. They're not giving an advance of $15,000 saying, "Well, $13,000 for 28 years and $2,000 if we get a few more years if [Congress] extend[s] the law." They are bargaining for 28 years, and they have thrown in the other wording on the theory that "if we can get it good; if we can't well then we have lost just a few words. We haven't lost a single dollar. "^^ This reference to "other wording" was to a previous statement by an attorney whose firm had been representing music publishers since 1919, and had inserted the following language in all contracts with songwriters: If the copyright law of the United States now in force shall be changed or amended so as to provide for an extended or longer term of copyright, then the writer hereby sells, assigns, transfers, and sets over unto the publisher, its successors and assigns or designees, all his right, title, and interest in. and to said musical compositions covered by this agreement, for such extended or longer term of copyright.^ This practice of inserting this clause in contracts was common. ^^ These are, though, the contracts that H.R. 989 will. Id. at 43. But see criticism of this characterization of "advances," id, at 45, and its defense, id. ^° Idj. at 42. ^^ Id. at 39. ^^ See id. at 41, 45.