The Berne Convention: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session on S. 1301 and S. 1971 ... February 18 and March 3, 1988U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 616 pages |
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... film in Canada . It was almost impossible to bring witnesses after many years to prove that fact , and , anyway , the Thai judges said enough copies weren't distributed in Canada to constitute " publication . " They went beyond that and ...
... film in Canada . It was almost impossible to bring witnesses after many years to prove that fact , and , anyway , the Thai judges said enough copies weren't distributed in Canada to constitute " publication . " They went beyond that and ...
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... films and other copyrighted works , and will help them fight widespread international piracy that costs American ... film companies , news- papers and broadcasters have not been in- hibited or harassed by an orgy of litigation under ...
... films and other copyrighted works , and will help them fight widespread international piracy that costs American ... film companies , news- papers and broadcasters have not been in- hibited or harassed by an orgy of litigation under ...
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... film directors want to include specific protections in Berne implementing legislation . At the other end of the spectrum , some magazine publishers want to freeze the development of U.S. law on moral rights . Well , let me just state my ...
... film directors want to include specific protections in Berne implementing legislation . At the other end of the spectrum , some magazine publishers want to freeze the development of U.S. law on moral rights . Well , let me just state my ...
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... film strips , multimedia educational materials , books and manuals , magazines and periodicals . The technology for creating , storing and communicating copy- righted works has become increasingly useful . But that same tech- nology has ...
... film strips , multimedia educational materials , books and manuals , magazines and periodicals . The technology for creating , storing and communicating copy- righted works has become increasingly useful . But that same tech- nology has ...
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... film pirate from selling videotapes of that company's motion pictures . Statement of the Motion Picture Association of America Before the Subcommittee on Courts , Civil Liberties , and the Administration of Justice , House Judiciary ...
... film pirate from selling videotapes of that company's motion pictures . Statement of the Motion Picture Association of America Before the Subcommittee on Courts , Civil Liberties , and the Administration of Justice , House Judiciary ...
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adherence to Berne American copyright American law Article 6bis artists authors Berne adherence Berne Convention Berne countries Berne member Berne Union Berne's bilateral bill Bo Goldman Chairman changes claim Coalition Committee common law compatible with Berne compulsory license Congress copies Copyright Act copyright industries Copyright Office copyright owners copyright protection courts Dennis DeConcini Director domestic law droit moral enact Federal film foreign GATT hearings implementing legislation infringement international copyright join Berne Kastenmeier LADD Lanham Act level of protection magazine members of Berne moral rights issue moral rights protection moral rights provision motion pictures movie MPAA nations negotiations NEILLY phonorecord piracy pirated proposed publishers question registration self-executing Senator DECONCINI Senator GRASSLEY Senator Hatch Senator LEAHY simultaneous publication specific statement statutes statutory testimony Thailand Thank tion title 17 U.S. adherence U.S. law United States adherence United States Code Universal Copyright Convention WIPO
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Page 312 - Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.
Page 303 - By the constitution, a treaty is placed on the same footing, and made of like obligation, with an act of legislation. Both are declared by that instrument to be the supreme law of the land, and no superior efficacy is given to either over the other. When the two relate to the same subject, the courts will always endeavor to construe them so as to give effect to both, if that can be done without violating the language of either; but. if the two are inconsistent, the one last in date...
Page 209 - ... the honor of the governments which are parties to it. If these fail, its infraction becomes the subject of international negotiations and reclamations, so far as the injured party chooses to seek redress, which may in the end be enforced by actual war. It is obvious that with all this the- judicial courts have nothing to do and can give no redress.
Page 475 - The same law of nations, which prescribes that all property belonging to the enemy shall be liable to confiscation, has likewise its modifications and relaxations of that rule. The arts and sciences are admitted amongst all civilized nations, as forming an exception to the severe rights of warfare, and as entitled to favor and protection. They are considered, not as the peculium of this or of that nation, but as the property of mankind at large, and as belonging to the common interests of the whole...
Page 402 - Convention shall apply to all works which, at the moment of its coming into force, have not yet fallen into the public domain in the country of origin through the expiry of the term of protection.
Page 548 - ... the notice has been omitted from no more than a relatively small number of copies or phonorecords distributed to the public; or (2) registration for the work has been made before or is made within five years after the publication without notice, and a reasonable effort is made to add notice to all copies or phonorecords that are distributed to the public...
Page 207 - State must be in a position under its domestic law to give effect to the terms of this Convention.
Page 390 - The economic philosophy behind the clause empowering Congress to grant patents and copyrights is the conviction that encouragement of individual effort by personal gain is the best way to advance public welfare through the talents of authors and inventors in "Science and useful Arts.
Page 410 - Britain, to be a right at common law. The right to useful inventions, seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors. The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of individuals. The states cannot separately make effectual provision for either of the cases, and most of them have anticipated the decision of this point, by laws passed at the instance of congress.
Page 406 - Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on US Adherence to the Berne Convention,