Copyright/cable Television: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First and Second Sessions, on H.R. 1805, H.R. 2007, H.R. 2108, H.R. 3528, H.R. 3530, H.R. 3560, H.R. 3940, H.R. 5870, and H.R. 5949, Copyright/cable TelevisionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 |
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advertising artists ASCAP ASSETS AVERAGE basic cable bill broadcast stations BUTLER cable industry cable operators cable subscribers cable systems cable television carriers CATV Chairman channels commercial Commission committee common carrier COMMUNITIES compulsory license Congress Copyright Act copyright law copyright liability Copyright Office copyright owners Copyright Royalty Tribunal counterfeiting DANIELSON distant signals distribution exemption FINANCIAL FINANCIAL RATIOS going GORTIKOV INCOME jukebox KASTENMEIER legislation MANKIEWICZ marketplace million motion picture musicians negotiate NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS organizations pay cable PAY TV payments percent performance right piracy PRE-TAX problem profit program suppliers question radio stations RAILSBACK record companies resale carriers retransmission right in sound royalty fees satellite SAWYER secondary transmissions SESAC sound recordings STATEMENT ACCOUNTS subcommittee superstation syndicated exclusivity syndicated program television stations tion TOTAL NUMBER TOTAL OPERATING TOTAL PER SUBSCRIBER United United States Code VALENTI WTBS
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Page 411 - ... literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly; (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly...
Page 600 - publicly" means — (1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered...
Page 411 - ... (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords ; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work ; (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending...
Page 38 - Union, and ordered to be printed [Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic...
Page 971 - ... by any carrier who has no direct or indirect control over the content or selection of the primary transmission or over the particular recipients of the secondary transmission...
Page 999 - Federal health care program, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $25,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.
Page 578 - When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less...
Page 576 - Not primarily for the benefit of the author, 'but primarily for the benefit of the public, such rights are given.
Page 442 - States shall provide a right in order to ensure that a single equitable remuneration is paid by the user, if a phonogram published for commercial purposes, or a reproduction of such phonogram, is used for broadcasting by wireless means or for any communication to the public, and to ensure that this remuneration is shared between the relevant performers and phonogram producers.
Page 885 - To Promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.