Rendition of Musical Compositions on Coin-operated Machines: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1870, to Amend Sec. 1(e) of Title 17 of the United States Code with Regard to the Rendition of Musical Compositions on Coin-operated Machines. April 23, 24, and 25, 1958Considers legislation to remove music performance royalty payment exemption given to jukebox operators. |
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Page 59 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Page 50 - The reproduction or rendition of a musical composition by or upon coin-operated machines shall not be deemed a public performance for profit unless a fee is charged for admission to the place where such reproduction or rendition occurs.
Page 83 - Embassy presents its compliments to the Department of State and has the honor to refer to the Embassy's aide memoire, dated July 6, 1965.
Page 2 - The Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Page 228 - If the rights under the copyright are infringed only by a performance where money is taken at the door, they are very imperfectly protected. Performances not different in kind from those of the defendants could be given that might compete with and even destroy the success of the monopoly that the law intends the plaintiffs to have. It is enough to say that there is no need to construe the statute so narrowly. The defendants' performances are not eleemosynary.
Page 5 - SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on the first day of the first calendar month which occurs after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Page 251 - In witness whereof the parties above named have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written...
Page 113 - ... difficult task to combine the protection of the composer with the protection of the public- and to so frame an act that it would accomplish the double purpose of securing to the composer an adequate return for all use...
Page 124 - Mr. HENDERSON. My name is Joseph D. Henderson. I am the national managing director of the American Association of Small Business, Inc., a national organization which had its inception during 1941 and received its charter February 20, 1942. We were organized in New Orleans, La., and...
Page 113 - The enactment of copyright legislation by Congress under the terms of the Constitution is not based upon any natural right that the author has in his writings, for the Supreme Court has held that such rights as he has are purely statutory...