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 #:
000372
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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364 fifty years; to protect the rights of broadcasting organizations to fix, reproduce, transmit, and televise their broadcasts for at least twenty years; and to protect performers against unauthorized fixation of their unfixed performances on sound recordings (and of the reproduction of such fixations) for at least fifty years from the date of authorized fixation." United States copyright law, as amended in 1992, already protected computer programs for at least seventy-five years." Moreover, the United States does not relegate the producers of sound recordings and broadcasting organizations to neighboring rights regimes, as do most European Union countries." For this and other reasons, this country does not adhere to the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonogreuns, and Broadcasting Organizations (knovm as the Rome Convention).** Instead, the United States Copyright Act amended . See TRIPS Agreement, supra note 5, aurt. 14. See 17 U.S.C. SS 101, 102(a), 201, 302(a), (c) , 304, as " See, e.g.. World Intellectual Property Organization, Goidi to THE ROME Convention and to the Phonograms convention 7-13 (1981) [hereinafter Guide to the Rome Convention]; see also Paul E. Geller, International Copyright; An Introduction. 1 International Copyright LAW AND Practice, S3tc) (P.E. Geller, ed., 1995) [hereinafter, Geller, Introduction! ; Stephen M. Stewart & Hamish Hamilton, Neighboring Rights, in International Copyright and Neighboring Rights 185, 188-91, 194-220 (S.M. Stewart & H. Sandison, eds. 1989). " ■ See International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms, and Broadcasting Organizations, adopted at Rome, Italy, Oct. 26, 1961, 496 U.N.T.S. 43 [hereinafter Rome Convention].