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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390 create. Indeed, even the possibility such laws afford authors to provide for their heirs and dependents can, in part, be rationalized as an incentive to create.'' Nor does it mean that copyright laws disregard, or should disregard, the concerns of econoaic efficiency. Rather, "any efficiencies that copyright law produces in the market for literary and artistic works are an integral part of the larger cultural policy this body of law seeks to implement. By the same token, the most fundamental of all the negative economic premises underlying the mature copyright paradigm is that the peculiar mix of cultural and economic policies it implements on the market for artistic works should not disrupt competition in the general products market as regulated by the mature patent paradigm.'''^ In other words, the social costs attributable to the relevant cultural policies remain tolerable only so long as the peculiar and specialized market for literary and artistic productions remains insulated from the general products market, where industrial property laws traditionally tip the balance toward free competition rather than legal incentives to create.** " See e.g. . Ricketson, supra note 70, at 761. " Reichman, Collapse of the Patent-Copvriaht Dichotomy. fillBEA note 4, at 495. •* Sgg, e.g., 17 U.S.C. $102 (b); Baker v. Selden. 101 U.S. 99 (1879); Benito Boats. Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats. Inc.. 489 U.S. 141, 151, 156-60 (1989); Feist Publications. Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co.. m s. Ct. 1282 (1991). For the breakdown of the historical line of demarcation sepeurating artistic from industrial property law, figg Collapse of the Patent-Copvriaht Dichotomy. £yB£A note 4, at 496-512; Legal Hybrids. aslBTA note