Digital Audio Tape Recorder Act of 1990: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, on S. 2358 ... June 13, 1990 |
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American analog tape artists ASCAP Athens Agreement Audio Tape Recorder BERMAN bill blank tape CD's Chairman compact discs compensation compromise CONGRESS THE LIBRARY copy management system copy prevention Copyright Coalition copyright law copyright owners copyright protection creators DAT Bill DAT recorders debit card debit system device digital audio interface digital audio tape digital compact cassette digital copies enactment FRIEL George David Weiss hardware manufacturers hearing home copying Home Recording Rights home taping home taping problem HRRC intellectual property issue Japanese LIBRARY OF CONGRE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS machines music industry music publishers musicians negotiations OMAN phonorecord prerecorded music professional record companies recording industry Recording Rights Coalition retailers RIAA rights owners royalty tax SCMS Senator DECONCINI Senator INOUYE Serial Copy Management song songwriters sound quality sound recordings standards Subcommittee Tape Recorder Act tapers technical reference document Thank United Wayland Holyfield
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Page 57 - ... are lost. Consumers' economic welfare losses are smaller because only 57 percent of home tapes are not made; similarly, the net economic loss to society is smaller than in the examples in table 7-11. Thus, although home taping may reduce the recording industry's revenues, a ban on home audio taping would be even more harmful to consumers, and would result in an outright loss of benefits to society, at least in the short term, in the billions of dollars.122 The longer-term consequences of such...
Page 68 - Authors of literary and artistic works protected by this Convention shall have the exclusive right of authorizing the reproduction of these works, in any manner or form.
Page 121 - No person shall import, manufacture, or distribute any device, or offer or perform any service, the primary purpose or effect of which is to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or otherwise circumvent any program or circuit which implements, in whole or in part, a system described in subsection (a).
Page 93 - Coalition, the American Federation of Musicians, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, which represents the retailers, and the Department of Professional Employees of the AFL-CIO.
Page 17 - In a case where the infringer sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that such infringer was not aware and had no reason to believe that his or her acts constituted an infringement of copyright...
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Page 74 - First, the United States is out of step with the rest of the world in terms of how our patent system operates.
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