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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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359 Prepared Statement of J.H. Reichman, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Introduction The following remarks attempt to evaluate the pending proposal to extend the term of United States Copyright protection' in the light of this %/riter's larger concerns about the future evolution of intellectual property rights in an Integrated world market.^ My recent studies show that the conditions governing creativity and Innovation at the end of the twentieth centviry differ significantly from those that gave rise to the Paris and Berne Conventions in the nineteenth century.' These changed conditions require legislative attention to the limits of the classical patent and copyright paradigms and to the need for new and more limited forms of protection dealing with ' See H.R. 989, 104th Congress, 1st session, Feb. 16, 1995 [hereinafter H.R. 989]. * Seg generally J.H. Reichman, Universal Minimvun Standards of Intellectual Property Protection Under the TRIPS Component of the WTO Agreement. 29 International Lawyer 345 (1995) [hereinafter, Universal Minimum Standards!; see also J.H. Reichman, Beyond the Historical Lines of Demarcation; Competition Law. Intellectual Propertv Rights, and International Trade After the GATT^s Uruguay Round. 20 Brooklyn J. Int'l L. 75 (1993) [hereinafter. Competition Law. Intellectual Propertv and Trade]. ' See Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Mar. 20, 1883, as last revised at Stockholm, July 14, 1967, 21 U.S.T. 1583, 828 U.N.T.S. 305 [hereinafter Paris Convention] ; Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Sept. 9, 1886, as last revised at Paris, July 24, 1971, 828 U.N.T.S. 221 [hereinafter Berne Convention].