Providing for Royalties for Musical Composition on Coin-operated Machines: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 3 ... Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session on H.R. 5174, a Bill to Provide for the Payment of Royalties for the Public Performance of Copyrighted Musical Compositions by Means of Coin-operated Machines, and for Other Purposes. May 2 and 3, 1963 |
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American amount annual ARMOUR ASCAP and BMI average performance basis bill broadcasters CELLER cents Chairman coin-operated machines committee composers compulsory licensing copyright law copyright owners copyrighted music cost current performance determine distribution expenses fair Federal FINKELSTEIN fiscal survey gentleman going Government hearings increase Joel Dean Judiciary jukebox exemption jukebox industry jukebox music jukebox operators KAMINSTEIN KASTEN MEIER KASTENMEIER legislation LIBONATI license fee LINDSAY manufacturers MATHIAS mechanical royalty MILLER million music machines music operators musical compositions number of performance Operators of America paid PATTERSON payment percent performance credits performance for profit performance fund Performing Rights Administrator performing rights organizations performing rights societies phonograph played present problem programs proposed public performance question radio and television reasonable receive recognized works performance record Register of Copyrights revenue sampling SESAC song songwriters statement stations subcommittee suggested testimony Thank tion Tuck WILLIS writer Wurlitzer
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Page 83 - 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 207 - The Constitution does not establish copyrights, but provides that Congress shall have the power to grant such rights if it thinks best. Not primarily for the benefit of the author, but primarily for the benefit of the public, such rights are given. Not that any particular class of citizens, however worthy, may benefit, but because the policy is believed to be for the benefit of the great body of people, in that it will stimulate writing and invention, to give some bonus to authors and inventors.
Page 33 - Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the US Copyright Law...
Page 207 - Court has held that such rights as he has are purely statutory rights, but upon the ground that the welfare of the public will be served and progress of science and useful arts will be promoted by securing to authors for limited periods the exclusive rights to their writings.
Page 207 - To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors . . . the exclusive Right to their respective Writings . . ." The power is thus circumscribed: it allows a monopoly to be granted only to "authors
Page 207 - Congress shall have the power — "To promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Page 207 - 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...
Page 22 - Oklahoma is paid 37% percent of the Red River oil and gas royalties in lieu of State and local taxes on Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribal lands to be used for construction and maintenance of public roads and support of public schools (65 Stat 252).
Page 207 - The main object to be desired in expanding copyright protection accorded to music has been to give to the composer an adequate return for the value of his composition, and it has been a serious and a 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 made of his composition and at the same time prevent the...