International Copyright/communication Policies: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 736 ... November 15, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 155 pages |
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advertising authors Berne Convention bilateral bill border broadcasters broadcast signals broadcasting stations Brussels Satellite Convention cable retransmissions cable royalty cable television cable television systems Canada Canadian broadcasters Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canadian cable systems Canadian copyright law Canadian copyright owners Canadian Government CANCOM Chairman Charles McC Commission communications companies compensation compulsory license CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Copyright Act copyright holders copyright liability Copyright Office copyright protection copyrighted programming countries CRTC distribution domestic satellites Federal Communications Commission foreign intellectual property INTELSAT interests international copyright issue LADD legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LYTLE motion pictures MPAA national treatment networks obligations OLSSON payment piracy problem producers ratified receive reciprocal resale carriers revenues Senator LEAHY Senator MATHIAS STACEY statement Subcommittee subscribers telecommunications television programming television stations tion trade transmission treaty U.S. broadcast U.S. cable U.S. program U.S. stations U.S. television United Universal Copyright Convention
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Page 52 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line...
Page 53 - ... application, or for the partial exercise only of such right or privilege, and may attach to the issuance of the certificate such terms and conditions as in its judgment the public convenience and necessity may require. After issuance of such certificate and not before, the carrier may, without securing approval other than such certificate...
Page 57 - ... no person not being authorized by the sender shall intercept any communication and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of such intercepted communication to any person...
Page 57 - No person receiving or assisting in receiving, or transmitting, or assisting in transmitting, any interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio shall divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning thereof, except through authorized channels of transmission or reception, to any person other than the addressee, his agent, or attorney, or to a person employed or authorized to forward such communication to its destination...
Page 57 - ... become acquainted with the contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of the same or any part thereof, knowing that such information was so obtained, shall divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of the same or any part thereof, or use the same or any information therein contained for his own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto...
Page 53 - The Commission may, after hearing, in a proceeding upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, authorize or require by order any carrier by railroad subject to this Act, party to such proceeding, to provide itself with safe and adequate facilities for performing as a common carrier...
Page 52 - No carrier shall undertake the construction of a new line or of an extension of any line, or shall acquire or operate any line, or extension thereof, or shall engage in transmission over or by means of such additional or extended line...
Page 53 - Act, and to extend its line or lines: Provided, That no such authorization or order shall be made unless the Commission finds, as to such extension, that it is reasonably required in the interest of public convenience and necessity, or as to such extension or facilities that the expense involved therein will not impair the ability of the carrier to perform its duty to the public.
Page 57 - ... no person not being entitled thereto shall receive or assist in receiving any interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio and use the same or any information therein contained for his own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto...
Page 52 - Provided further, That the Commission may, upon appropriate request being made, authorize temporary or emergency service, or the supplementing of existing facilities, without regard to the provisions of this section.