Authorizing a Composer's Royalty in Revenues from Coin-operated Machines and to Establish a Right of Copyright in Artistic Interpretations. Hearings ... Subcommittee on Patents, Trade-Marks, and Copyrights ...Considers (80) H.R. 1269, (80) H.R. 1270, (80) H.R. 2570. |
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ACKERMAN acoustic recording AHLERT American ASCAP authors and composers automatic phonograph bill Bing Crosby broadcasting BRYSON Buck cents CHADWICK CHAFFETZ Chairman coin-operated machines committee compulsory license Congress consent Constitution copy Copyright Act copyright law copyright owner copyright proprietor copyright protection create CURTISS device disk jockey distributor duplicated or recaptured enacted exclusive right exemption Fred Ahlert Fred Waring FROHLICH gentlemen give grant hear industry infringement interpretation juke box KEATING legislation LEVINE LEWIS means Miss MARKS monopoly motion picture music machine musical composition musicians operator orchestra organization Paul Whiteman penny arcade percent performance for profit performing artist performing rights person phonograph records play present provision public performance publisher question radio stations recaptured recording record companies record manufacturer restaurant royalty SCHULMAN sell SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS song SPEISER statement style tavern thing tion United WALTER Whiteman words writing
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Page 111 - 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 225 - Is true that the music is not the sole object, but neither is the food, which probably could be got cheaper elsewhere. The object is a repast in surroundings that to people having limited powers of conversation, or disliking the rival noise, give a luxurious pleasure not to be had from eating a silent meal. If the music did not pay, it would be given up.
Page 225 - The defendants' performances are not eleemosynary. They are part of a total for which the public pays, and the fact that the price of the whole is attributed to a particular item which those present are expected to order, is not important. It is true that the music is not the sole object, but neither is the food, which probably could be got cheaper elsewhere. The object is a repast in surroundings that to people having limited powers of conversation, or disliking the rival noise, give a luxurious...
Page 250 - the date of publication" shall in the case of a work of which copies are reproduced for sale or distribution be held to be the earliest date when copies of the first authorized edition were placed on sale, sold, or publicly distributed by the proprietor of the copyright or under his authority, and the word "author" shall include an employer in the case of works made for hire.
Page 211 - That compilations or abridgments, adaptations, arrangements, dramatizations, translations, or other versions of works in the public domain, or of copyrighted works when produced with the consent of the proprietor of the copyright in such works, or works republished with new matter, shall be regarded as new works subject to copyright under the provisions of this Act...
Page 257 - To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries...
Page 136 - ... 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 formation of oppressive monopolies, which might be founded upon the very rights granted to the composer for the purpose of protecting his interests.
Page 2 - ... or of a photograph or other identifying reproduction thereof, if it be a work of art or a plastic work or drawing. But the privilege of registration of copyright secured hereunder shall not exempt the copyright proprietor from the deposit of copies, under sections 13 and 14 of this title, where the work is later reproduced in copies for sale.
Page 111 - In that act, so far as pertinent to this matter it was provided (section 1), that any person entitled thereto, upon complying with the provisions of the act, should have the exclusive right to perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit, if it be a musical composition...
Page 83 - Provided, however. That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent the performance of religious or secular works, such as oratorios cantatas, masses, or octavo choruses by public schools, church choirs, or vocal societies, rented, borrowed, or obtained from some public library, public school, church choir, school choir, or vocal society, provided the performance is given for charitable or educational purposes and not for profit.