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 #:
000392
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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384 are directly or indirectly tied to the issue of duration.^ The European Connission has doggedly pursued this path with respect to the criterion of originality used to determine eligibility in the domestic copyright laws of the Community, for exeunple.^ To do otherwise would saddle the Community with hidden barriers to trade and disregard the edicts of the Europeam Court of Justice, as most recently manifested in the Phil Collins Decision.^ Absent such levelling to lessen the divergent national traditions of the participating states, however, a superficial alignment with respect to selected terms of duration alone produces illogical and contradictory results. By prolonging the basic term of protection afforded works made for hire under U.S. law from seventy-five to ninety-five years, H.R. 989 would only compound pre-existing differences and destabilize the degree of harmonization already underway in the context of U.S. E.U. copyright relations.''* Moreover, developing countries already struggling to defray the costs of imported cultural and technological goods will hardly welcome lengthened terms of copyright protection, any more than the United States did at earlier stages of its own economic development. On the contrary, these countries would normally ^ See, e.g.. Cohen Jehoram, supra note 39, at 827-31. ■" See, e.g.. IjL., at 828-30. " See id. . at 825-27; supra note 58 and accompanying text. ^ See supra text accompanying notes 26-44.