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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1986
This hearing addressed Senate Bill 1384, which deals with the copyright issue and seeks to alter the 5-to-4 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Mills Music case. The question under consideration is whether the law should be made explicit to the effect that the class of intended beneficiaries of all royalties under the…
Descriptors: Authors, Copyrights, Federal Legislation, Hearings
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Horowitz, Irving Louis; Curtis, Mary E. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
Examines ramifications of legislative recognition of concept of fair use in Copyright Act of 1976 and argues that elimination of fair use doctrine, coupled with increase in technological approaches to reporting of secondary use of copyrighted material, will benefit authors, publishers, and librarians alike. Fifteen references are cited. (EJS)
Descriptors: Authors, Copyrights, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
Sanders, Wayne – 1991
This paper explores the rights of authors before publication of their works, if those works are to be published at all, and how these rights might yield to fair use of the works by other authors. Firstly, the paper examines the interests at stake of the three main groups involved: authors, the public, and people who wish to quote or closely…
Descriptors: Authors, Copyrights, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech