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 #:
000395
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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387 property protection." Until it becones possible to evaluate the costs and benefits of the Uruguay Round as a whole, these demands for greater market access would almost certainly exceed the technical and political capabilities of developed countries to grant them. For these and other reasons, the proposals contained in H.R. 989 cannot be justified as an exercise in harmonization. Their justification in terms of cultural policy remains to be assessed. 2. The Logic of Cultural Policy: More Than Utility, Less Than Natural Law According to Professor Ricketson, a most ardent and distinguished supporter of authors' rights in general, "one is hard-pressed to find reasoned justification for the move for longer terns of protection," which culminated Internationally in the life plus fifty standard adopted at the Brussels Revision of the Berne Convention in 1948.*^ The explemation lies in the "strong emphasis that has always been placed on the natural property rights of the author in his work. In this respect, ideology has replaced critical inquiry, and has led to a long period of protection. . .becoming enshrined as «m absolute value that has seldom been challenged, except where there have been ** See Relchman, Universal Minimum Standards, supra note 2, at 382-85 ("compensation as the key to future concessions"). ** See Ricketson, supra note 70, at 778, 783.