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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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 #:
000343
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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335 20 to ensure that the termination right was inalienable and unwaivable, no agreement to transfer rights after termination would be valid unless entered into after termination had occurred, with the exception that a future agreement between the author and the original transferee would be valid if entered into after the notice of termination has been filed; (8) the proportionate shares between the widow and children were specified. In preparation for the first congressional hearings on the revision effort, Register of Copyrights Abraham Kaminstein issued a supplementary report. '° The report traces the origins of the termination of transfer provisions to the failure of the 1909 Act to adequately give authors a second bite at the apple. Although noting the objections of publishers and the motion picture industry, who asserted that authors are not generally in a poor bargaining position, the Register concluded that the Copyright Office "remained committed to the general principle of reversion as one of the most important elements of the copyright law revision program."'^ At hearings before the House in 1965, the parties noted their individual wishes that the bill had been more favorable to them, but stuck by their compromise on termination, and strongly supported the life plus 50 term.'-' How the Term of Protection Provisions in the 1976 Act Work The 1976 Act's treatment of duration may be divided into three parts: (1) works created on or after January 1, 1978; (2) works unpublished and unregistered on January 1, 1978. Works Created On or After January 1, 1978: Section 302 '° Copyright Law Revision Part 6; Supplementary Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law: 1965 Revision Bill. 89th Cong., 1st Sess. (House Comm. Print 1965) . ''^ Id. at 71-72. '2 Id. at 72. '^ See Copyright Law Revision: Hearings on H.R. 4347 Before Subcomm. No. 3 of the House Judiciary Comm. . 89th Cong., 1st Sess. 82-84, 92-94, 95-96, 1761-1765 (Authors League) ; 129, 142, 147-148 (book publishers); 162-164 (magazine publishers); 228-234, 239, 242-245 (American Guild of Authors & Composers); 251, 255, 257 (magazine photographers); 996-997. 1010, 1035-1037, 1048-1049 (motion picture companies); 1866-1870 (Copyright Office) (1965) .