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Los Angeles Hearing 95
DR. BILLINGTON: This is a matter of simple logic. It's either yes or no.
MR. SLUSSER: Well, it depends on the given time.
DR. BILLINGTON: Your answer is no then.
MR. SLUSSER: No, my answer is not no. My answer is I don't know all the issues and until such time as we're able to deflne all the issues, it's absolutely impossible to make a blanket statement that applies across the board.
DR. BILLINGTON: So probably no in other words?
MR. SLUSSER: If you want no, take no. If you want my answer, the answer is until I know exactly what we're talking about it wouldn't make much intelligence sense to answer a specific question, as opposed to a general question.
DR. BILLINGTON: Well, it helps to have some indication. We have a date certain by which we have to produce a plan. If you're going to recommend on the one hand that we make a vast effort, or somebody make a vast effort to inventory these things, and you who are in the industry can't give us sort of an educated guess as to whether there are significant things that wouldn't be divulged, then it's hard to assess how worthwhile such an inventory would be.
MR. SLUSSER: You can't do anything along this line until you get an understanding of common terms among all of us, because believe me there are tremendous differences, and they mean different things and would have great consequence: that's number one. Number two, I think it would be absolutely important to try just to define what it is you think are the problem areas and once we all get an opportunity to look at that, I think you'll find most of us care about preservation. And most of us want to share that information.
We would all be primarily interested in preserving our own rights, our own individual rights. It's that simple.
MR. HUMPHREY: I think from our perspective that sharing primary information about preprint elements, which is really what we're all getting at-who has an IP, who has the YCM, who has a German track, who has a stereo soundtrack. I don't see a major problem sharing this kind of information. We already share that information with a lot of people. We share that information with our clients, because they sometimes help us out in finding materials also.
So if those are the parameters, I don't see a major problem with it The only problem may be titles as they come into the public domain, which is down the road. It's not the titles of the 1920s that really sell, it's the titles that are in the 1930s and 1940s