Counterfeit Phonograph Records: Hearing Before Subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 6354, a Bill to Provide (1) Criminal Penalties for the Counterfeiting of Phonograph Records and (2) Civil Remedies for Infringement of Mechanical Rights in Copyrighted Music. May 10, 1962Committee Serial No. 28. Considers H.R. 6354, to provide criminal penalties and allow for civil damage suits for interstate trafficking in counterfeit phonograph records. |
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Page 34 - To pay to the copyright proprietor such damages as the copyright proprietor may have suffered due to the infringement, as well as all the profits which the infringer shall have made from such infringement...
Page 24 - State or territory the equal protection of the laws, each of said persons shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000 or by imprisonment with or without hard labor, not less than six months nor more than six years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 84 - Supplementary Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the US Copyright Law: 1965 Revision Bill.
Page 26 - And as a condition of extending the copyright control to such mechanical reproductions, that whenever the owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted or knowingly acquiesced in the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work...
Page 82 - ... such intention, by registered mail, upon the copyright proprietor at his last address disclosed by the records of the copyright office, sending to the copyright office a duplicate of such notice; and in case of his failure so to do the court may, in its discretion, in addition to sums hereinabove mentioned, award the complainant a further sum, not to exceed three times the amount provided by section one, subsection (e), by way of damages, and not as a penalty, and also a temporary injunction...
Page 34 - ... serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, relying upon the compulsory license provision of this title, he shall serve notice of such intention, by registered mail, upon the copyright proprietor at his last address disclosed by the records of the copyright office, sending to the copyright office a duplicate of such notice...
Page 25 - ... in lieu of actual damages and profits such damages as to the court shall appear to be just, and in assessing such damages the court may, in its discretion, allow the amounts as hereinafter stated...
Page 82 - Act, or who shall knowingly and willfully aid or abet such infringement, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding one year or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court: Provided, however. That nothing in this Act...
Page 62 - First. In the case of a painting, statue, or sculpture, $10 for every infringing copy made or sold by or found in the possession of the infringer or his agents or employees; Second.
Page 82 - Whenever the owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of musical instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, then in case of infringement of such copyright by the unauthorised manufacture, use, or sale of interchangeable parts, such as disks, rolls, bands, or cylinders...