A Possible Protocol to the Berne Convention

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Excerpt from A Possible Protocol to the Berne Convention: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, April 29 and May 27, 1993, Serial No. 35The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:04 a.m., in room 2237, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. William J. Hughes (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.Present: Representative William J. Hughes, Jack Reed, Carlos J. Moorhead, Howard Coble, Hamilton Fish, Jr., and F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.Also present: Hay den W. Gregory, counsel, William F. Patry, assistant counsel, Veronica L. Eligan, secretary, and Thomas E. Mooney, minority counsel.Opening Statement Of Chairman HughesMr. Hughes. The Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration will come to order.The Chair has received a request to cover this hearing in whole or in part by television broadcast, radio broadcast, and still photography or by other similar methods of coverage. In accordance with committee rule 5(a), permission will be granted unless there is objection. Is there objection?[No response.]Mr. Hughes. Permission will be granted.Good morning and welcome to the subcommittee's oversight hearing on developments in international copyright law. On March 25, the subcommittee held a hearing on performers' rights and performance rights in sound recordings.Most of the testimony at that particular hearing concerned new digital methods of delivering music and sound recordings, principally by digital audio cable, but also in the future by digital over-the-air broadcasting. The Recording Industry Association of America made the argument that digital delivery should be viewed less as a performance in the traditional copyright sense and more like a distribution or reproduction.Also last month, the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, hosted a 3-day symposium at Harvard University on the ways digital technology is likely to impact on copyright and neighboring rights regimes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.