United States Copyright Office: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, July 23, 1998 |
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Page 11 - ... (who created more than 100,000 works in various media), Georges Braque. Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, and Wassily Kandinsky. We have also been contacted by lawyers who represent publishers and the estates of well known playwrights and novelists. Although protection is automatic, there are complicated provisions covering a prior user of a restored work, defined as a "reliance party," who is insulated from liability for infringement in certain circumstances and for a certain period of...
Page 21 - Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., Inc., 499 US 340 (1991).
Page 8 - Organization (WTO) meetings and consultations with respect to implementation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs); and in negotiations over a Multilateral Agreement on Investment at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Page 10 - ... implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property — known as the TRIPS agreement — resulted in three changes in the copyright law; however, one change has a major impact on the operations and workload of the Copyright Office. This change automatically restores copyright protection in a vast amount of foreign works which were previously in the public domain in the United States for a variety of reasons, eg, publication without the notice of copyright...
Page 8 - ... cooperation of the Copyright Office, the Library of Congress and the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). Funding has come from the Library of Congress and the Advanced Research Projects Agency. The goal is to demonstrate and test ideas for a national centralized system that will allow electronic filing over the Internet of applications, deposits, and fees for copyright registration as well as documents of transfers of ownership including licensing information, such as terms...
Page 10 - ... documents electronically, we will see savings in the processing of such materials and eventually in certain areas we will be able to reduce the number of employees required to do the job. Let me now turn to the GATT Uruguay Round Agreements Act, which was signed by the President on December 8, 1994. The implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property — known as the TRIPS agreement — resulted in three changes in the copyright law; however, one...
Page 8 - ... ideas for a national centralized system that will allow electronic filing over the Internet of applications, deposits, and fees for copyright registration as well as documents of transfers of ownership including licensing information, such as terms and conditions of use. A major feature of the future system will be the storage and retrieval of copyrighted works from secure repositories for electronic dissemination in accordance with terms and conditions established by copyright owners. Our objective...
Page 8 - A batch mode interface was created to support publishers who submit large numbers of claims, and an extensive outreach effort to gain new partners for the full or the partial system is underway. The Copyright Office and its expert consultants will continue to build on and enhance the basic production system, incorporating changes from the test results as well as the latest advances in technology. The Office must expand the program systematically in a series of carefully constructed test phases; consequently,...
Page 14 - ... THE SECURITY OF MATERIALS RECEIVED THROUGH MANDATORY DEPOSIT As you know, the Copyright Office is a division within the Library of Congress and works with the Library in fulfilling the Library's mission of service to Congress and the American people. A. Acquiring Deposits for the Library of Congress The Copyright Acquisition Division (CAD) staff works very closely with the service units of the Library to acquire copyrighted materials that have not been registered or deposited. The mandatory deposit...
Page 21 - Contracting Parties shall protect any database that represents a substantial investment in the collection, assembly, verification, organization or presentation of the contents of the database.