Copyright and New Technologies: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First and Second Sessions ... November 20, 1985, and August 7, 1986, Volume 4 |
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Page 265 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows...
Page 150 - My name is Jack Valenti. I am President and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Page 36 - Service. A radiocommunication service in which signals transmitted or retransmitted by space stations are intended for direct reception by the general public. NOTE: In the broadcasting-satellite service. the term direct reception shall encompass both individual reception and community reception.
Page 27 - ... such information was so obtained, shall divulge or publish, the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of the same or any part thereof, or use the same or any information therein contained for his own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto : Provided, That this section shall not apply to the receiving, divulging, publishing, or utilizing the contents of any radio communication broadcast, or transmitted by amateurs or others for the use of the general public,...
Page 266 - ... where the carriage of the signals comprising the secondary transmission is permissible under the rules, regulations, or authorizations of the Federal Communications Commission.
Page 227 - ... particular recipients of the secondary transmission, and whose activities with respect to the secondary transmission consist solely of providing wires, cables, or other communications channels for the use of others : Provided, That the provisions of this clause extend only to the activities of said carrier with respect to secondary transmissions and do not exempt from liability the activities of others with respect to their own primary or secondary transmissions...
Page 7 - ... or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.
Page 65 - Ct 1210] (1963), or where state law 'stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.
Page 7 - ... transmit or otherwise communicate a performance ... of the work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance ... receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.
Page 261 - ... two or more cable systems in contiguous communities under common ownership or control or operating from one headend shall be considered as one system. The ''local service area of a primary transmitter...