Copyright Infringements (audio and Video Recorders): Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First and Second Sessions, on S. 1758 ... November 30, 1981 and April 21, 1982U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 1384 pages |
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... infringement . By enacting this legislation , Congress would be protecting the VCR owners from any infringement of the Copyright Act if they do not use their recorders for noncommercial purposes . I think that is the key to this ...
... infringement . By enacting this legislation , Congress would be protecting the VCR owners from any infringement of the Copyright Act if they do not use their recorders for noncommercial purposes . I think that is the key to this ...
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... infringement ? Did they intend that the fair use doctrine would cover this home recording ? Their guess and the ... infringement is concerned , we want this to be totally exempt . ' Under section 110 of the law they list nine exemptions ...
... infringement ? Did they intend that the fair use doctrine would cover this home recording ? Their guess and the ... infringement is concerned , we want this to be totally exempt . ' Under section 110 of the law they list nine exemptions ...
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... infringement of copyright . There are a whole group of other areas - section 112 dealing with cable , section 118 ... infringement . We do not want it to be an infringement because of other purposes served by these uses , and either we ...
... infringement of copyright . There are a whole group of other areas - section 112 dealing with cable , section 118 ... infringement . We do not want it to be an infringement because of other purposes served by these uses , and either we ...
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... infringements or potentially millions of in- fringements when you think of how many people own this equip- ment , that ... infringement . It fits exactly into the sort of provision already in the law , one dealing with home recording of ...
... infringements or potentially millions of in- fringements when you think of how many people own this equip- ment , that ... infringement . It fits exactly into the sort of provision already in the law , one dealing with home recording of ...
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... infringement even if the copy- ing was done by private persons for their own non - commercial use . The Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision by Judge Ferguson reported at 480 F.Supp . 429 ( C.D. Calif . 1979 ) which held that ...
... infringement even if the copy- ing was done by private persons for their own non - commercial use . The Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision by Judge Ferguson reported at 480 F.Supp . 429 ( C.D. Calif . 1979 ) which held that ...
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Page 738 - ... the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; 2*17U.SC§ 106(1998). (2) the nature of the copyrighted work...
Page 1226 - Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Page 382 - ... the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Page 232 - ... 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 121 - ... nothing in this Act contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this Act are in addition to such remedies...
Page 117 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Page 421 - ... (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; (4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly...
Page 231 - 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 378 - Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the US Copyright Law...
Page 502 - The utility of this power will scarcely be questioned. The copyright of authors has been solemnly adjudged, in Great Britain, to be a right at common law. The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors.