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 Bills to Amend Title 17, United States Codes, to Implement the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works as Revised at Paris on July 24, 1971, and for Other Purposes, February 18 and March 3, 1988U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 616 pages |
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... give us copyright relations with 24 countries with which we have no current relations . A twenty - fifth country , the People's Republic of China , with more than a billion users of copyrighted works , has given strong signals that it ...
... give us copyright relations with 24 countries with which we have no current relations . A twenty - fifth country , the People's Republic of China , with more than a billion users of copyrighted works , has given strong signals that it ...
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... give people the ability to enjoy copyrighted works in ways that could not be imag- ined only a few years ago and , as such , give rise to new copyright issues that the nations must work together to solve . In short , Mr. Chairman ...
... give people the ability to enjoy copyrighted works in ways that could not be imag- ined only a few years ago and , as such , give rise to new copyright issues that the nations must work together to solve . In short , Mr. Chairman ...
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... gives the highest degree of copyright protection and that other nations would have to be dragged kicking and screaming ... give other nations the tactical diplomatic advantage of using our nonadherence as a means of deflecting attention ...
... gives the highest degree of copyright protection and that other nations would have to be dragged kicking and screaming ... give other nations the tactical diplomatic advantage of using our nonadherence as a means of deflecting attention ...
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... give them . And because those scholars have concluded that such laws already give authors and artists the same protec- tion that Berne calls " moral " rights , the legislation gives them no additional ones . Indeed , it makes it clear ...
... give them . And because those scholars have concluded that such laws already give authors and artists the same protec- tion that Berne calls " moral " rights , the legislation gives them no additional ones . Indeed , it makes it clear ...
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... give us copyright relations with 24 countries with which we have no current relations . Second , bilateral arrangements suffer from lack of certainty or varying standards and are more likely not to be honored . Protection under the UCC ...
... give us copyright relations with 24 countries with which we have no current relations . Second , bilateral arrangements suffer from lack of certainty or varying standards and are more likely not to be honored . Protection under the UCC ...
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Page 409 - 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 217 - State must be in a position under its domestic law to give effect to the terms of this Convention.
Page 311 - 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 will control the other,...
Page 215 - ... 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 304 - Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. 2 Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Page 196 - 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 311 - 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 134 - In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.
Page 140 - [A]bove all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.