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 #:
000576
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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568 Los Angeles Hearing 99 And the archive wanted to expend the money to hold onto it and preserve it because they felt it was a public-spirited thing to do, or an artistic thing to do, or whatever their reasons were. And we said, "okay, if you feel that way, fine." And now you're coming back and saying, "whoops, we forgot to ask you to pay for it." And I think that's proper that you do so. But I look at this as part of the overall economic plan of the United States as to where we should spend public money. And in effect this would be an additional tax on us and we certainly should discuss it and we certainly should consider the pros and cons of it. But I don't think any of us are ready to say to you you're absolutely right we should pay for it. I don't think we're ready to do that yet CHAIRWOMAN KANIN: Are we hearing that if the archive comrauiuty decided to dump the nitrate because it was too expensive to maintain, would you all be happy with that? I have not heard that they're willing to do that. But since money is pressing now and we have to figure where to put it, would you all be happy if the archives should make such a decision? I don't know that they all would, but I just am wondering what you would think. MR. FRANCIS: Let's say we would offer it back to you first, MR. MAY: I think that's fair. If we want it, well take it. If we don't, then well tell you what you can do. MR. FRANCIS: We'd be prepared to offer it back to you with a bill for the cost of storing it during the period we had it. MR. MAY: Well, we're not charging you for the period that you borrowed it. [Laughter.] MR. GARDINER: I'm remaining mute on this subject because I deferred to Mr. Mayer before and I continue to do so since our nitrate collection is MR. HUMPHREY: In terms of the Library of Congress holdings, I think Columbia Pictures has about 50% of the holdings in Dayton, Ohio. This agreement was made many years ago. What we're working on right now makes me think that I may have made a statement too absolute. We're working with the Library now to take a look at nitrate materials. For example, what we've done is we've moved some nitrate materials to other archives, for example, British titles, we've moved those out But there may be titles that are so deteriorated and so low on the list that no matter what technological mediums come up they will not be able to be kept. And I think we may have to make some hard decisions with our own company as to that long-term permanent storage.