COPYRIGHT see also Patents

Analyses

Articles and editorials

Bill of Rights for Arts, 30264 [29OC]

Interrupted Melody, 16297-16299 [16JN]

Tape Pirates Losing the War, 22041 [3AU]

Bills and resolutions

Arts: secure rights of authors of pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works to prevent distortion, mutilation, or other alteration (see H.R. 3221)

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: implement (see S. 1301; H.R. 1163, 2962)

Business: amend copyright law regarding work made for hire (see S. 1223)

Computers: protect programs from illegal copying (see H.R. 1743)

———protective orders for semiconductor chip products (see H.R. 1951)

———require inclusion of copy-code scanners (see S. 506)

Industrial designs: protection (see S. 791; H.R. 1179)

Intellectual property rights: protection (see H.R. 2206)

International law: improve international copyright, patent, and trademark protection (see H.R. 1651)

Manufacturing clause: amend law (see H.R. 2956)

Motion pictures: artistic authors exclusive right to prohibit material alteration, including colorization (see H.R. 2400)

———audiovisual works for inpatients in health care facilities (see H.R. 2429)

NASA: use of inventions in outer space (see H.R. 1521)

National defense: forfeiture of media royalty for certain convicted individuals (see H.R. 1069)

Patents: intellectual property rights (see S. 635)

———strengthen protection for processes (see H.R. 1718)

———use of certain inventions in outer space (see S. 501)

Space industrialization: working relations of Federal agencies and private sector (see S. 502)

Syndicated Television Music Copyright Act: enact (see S. 698; H.R. 1195)

Telecommunications: interim statutory licensing of the secondary transmission by satellite carriers of superstations for private viewing (see H.R. 2848)

Trademark Law Revision Act: enact (see S. 1883)

Visual Artists Rights Act: enact (see S. 1619; H.R. 3221)

Hearings

Committee on the Judiciary (House): intellectual property and trade

———Japanese-made digital audio tape impact on U.S. recording industry (testimony), D230 [2AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (Senate): Japanese-made digital audio tape impact on U.S. recording industry (testimony), D230 [2AP]

———U.S. patented process (S. 568, 573, 635) (testimony), D267 [22AP]

Letters

Arts: John R. Bolton, 12489 [14MY]

Protective orders for semiconductor chip products: Roy Denman, Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities, 29246 [27OC]

Lists

Members of the Copyright Justice Coalition, 12961 [19MY]

Motion

Computers: protective orders for semiconductor chip products (H.R. 1951), 29249 [27OC]

Papers

Forging a New Attack Against Criminal Copyright Offenders Via Civil RICO: Leslie Shoup, 24024-24027 [15SE]

Remarks in House

Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act: enact (H.R. 1328), 4451 [2MR]

Arts: secure rights of authors of pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works to prevent distortion, mutilation, or other alteration (H.R. 3221), 23479 [7AU], 30264 [29OC]

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: implement (H.R. 1623), 5718-5721 [16MR], 20085 [15JY]

Computers: protect programs from illegal copying (H.R. 1743), 6439 [19MR]

———protective orders for semiconductor chip products (H.R. 1951), 8068 [6AP], 29245-29249 [27OC]

Digital audio recording devices: inclusion of copy-code scanners (H.R. 1384), 16297 [16JN], 16319 [16JN]

Intellectual Property Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1603), 5677 [12MR]

Motion pictures: audiovisual works for inpatients in health care facilities (H.R. 2429), 12555 [14MY]

———authors exclusive right to prohibit material alteration, including colorization (H.R. 2400), 12412 [13MY]

Television: interim statutory licensing of the secondary transmission by satellite carriers of superstations for private viewing (H.R. 2848), 18357, 18358 [30JN]

Visual Artists Rights Act: enact (H.R. 3221), 23479 [7AU], 30264 [29OC]

Remarks in Senate

Arts: intellectual property rights (S. 635), 5588 [12MR], 9277 [22AP], 12487 [14MY]

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: implement (S. 1301), 14149 [29MY]

Business: amend copyright law regarding work made for hire (S. 1223), 12957 [19MY]

Computers: require inclusion of copy-code scanners (S. 506), 22975 [6AU], 23165, 23343 [7AU]

Crime and criminals: copyright and trademark fraud, 32616 [18NO]

Digital Audio Recorder Act: enact (S. 506), 3090-3092 [5FE]

Digital audio recording devices: inclusion of copy-code scanners (H.R. 1384), 22975 [6AU], 23343 [7AU]

Foreign trade: intellectual property rights, 22040 [3AU]

———intellectual property rights enforcement (S. 468), 2904 [4FE]

———protection of intellectual property rights (S. 486), 3049 [5FE]

Patents: intellectual property rights (S. 635), 4608 [3MR]

Syndicated Television Music Copyright Reform Act: enact (S. 698), 5154 [10MR], 7171 [27MR]

———enact (S. 698), order for star print, 6637 [24MR]

Trademark Law Revision Act: enact (S. 1883), 32812 [19NO]

Visual Artists Rights Act: enact (S. 1619), 22950 [6AU]

Reports

Trademark Law Reform (S. 1617), 23573 [9SE]

Reports filed

Protective Orders for Semiconductor Chip Products: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 1951) (H. Rept. 100-388), 28619 [21OC]

Statements

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: Dept. of State, 14151 [29MY]

Free Enterprise Rests on Trademarks: Stephen P. Ladas, 32812 [19NO]

Purpose of the Trademark: Guy Blynn, 23573 [9SE]

Summaries

Digital Audio Recorder Act (S. 506), 3092 [5FE]

Testimonies

Inclusion of Copy-Code Scanners in Digital Audio Recording Devices: Stevland (Stevie Wonder) Morris, 16319 [16JN]

Texts of

H.R. 1328, Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act, 4452-4454 [2MR]

S. 468, intellectual property rights enforcement, 2904 [4FE]

S. 506, Digital Audio Recorder Act, 3091 [5FE]

S. 698, Syndicated Television Music Copyright Reform Act, 5155 [10MR]

S. 1619, Visual Artists Rights Act, 22951 [6AU]

S. 1883, Trademark Law Revision Act, 32813 [19NO]