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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... obligations of the United States as a Berne 14 Union member may be performed only pursuant to ap15 propriate domestic law ; and 16 ( 4 ) the amendments made by this Act , together 17 18 with existing law , will enable the United States ...
... obligations of the United States as a Berne 14 Union member may be performed only pursuant to ap15 propriate domestic law ; and 16 ( 4 ) the amendments made by this Act , together 17 18 with existing law , will enable the United States ...
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... obligations of the United States as a Berne Union member may be performed only pursuant to ap- propriate domestic law ; and ( 4 ) the amendments made by this Act , together with existing law , will enable the United States to meet its ...
... obligations of the United States as a Berne Union member may be performed only pursuant to ap- propriate domestic law ; and ( 4 ) the amendments made by this Act , together with existing law , will enable the United States to meet its ...
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... obligations of the United States under the Berne Convention may be satisfied only by appropriate domestic law ; ( 3 ) ... obligation of the United States to provide the author with the right to be named as a work's author or to object to ...
... obligations of the United States under the Berne Convention may be satisfied only by appropriate domestic law ; ( 3 ) ... obligation of the United States to provide the author with the right to be named as a work's author or to object to ...
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... obligation under the UCC is general , and its minimum levels of protection are not sufficient to deter piracy of U.S. works . While the Berne Convention is also grounded in the concept of national treatment , it has the additional ...
... obligation under the UCC is general , and its minimum levels of protection are not sufficient to deter piracy of U.S. works . While the Berne Convention is also grounded in the concept of national treatment , it has the additional ...
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... obligations . H.R. 2962 reflects the view taken by many copyright experts that the totality of current U.S. law , including Federal statutes , certain common law tort and contract rights , and some state statutes , provides sufficient ...
... obligations . H.R. 2962 reflects the view taken by many copyright experts that the totality of current U.S. law , including Federal statutes , certain common law tort and contract rights , and some state statutes , provides sufficient ...
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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,