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A POSSIBLE PROTOCOL TO THE

BERNE CONVENTION

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

77-315 CC

APRIL 29 AND MAY 27, 1993

Serial No. 35

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1994

For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office

Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402

ISBN 0-16-044594-9

Hughes, Hon. William J., a Representative in Congress from the State of

New Jersey, and chairman, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and

Judicial Administration

WITNESSES

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Berman, Jason S., president, Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.
Ficsor, Mihály, director, Copyright Department, World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland

Hadl, Robert D., vice president and general counsel, MCA Inc.

Oman, Ralph, Register of Copyrights and Associate Librarian for Copyright

Services, Library of Congress, accompanied by Dorothy Schrader, General

Counsel, and Marybeth Peters, Policy Planning Adviser

Roth, Jay D., counsel, Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, AFL-
CIO, and Writers Guild of America, West, Burbank, CA

Shapiro, Ira, General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Smith, Eric H., executive director and general counsel, International Intellec-

tual Property Alliance, accompanied by Jon Baumgarten, partner,

Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, on behalf of the Association of

American Publishers, and Robert Holleyman, president, Business Software

Alliance

LETTERS, STATEMENTS, ETC., SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING

Berman, Jason S., president, Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.:

Prepared statement

Hadl, Robert D., vice president and general counsel, MCA Inc.: Prepared

statement

Moorhead, Hon. Carlos J., a Representative in Congress from the State of

California; Prepared statement

Ficsor, Mihály, director, Copyright Department, World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland: Prepared statement

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Oman, Ralph, Register of Copyrights and Associate Librarian for Copyright
Services, Library of Congress: Prepared statement

8

Roth, Jay D., counsel, Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, AFL-

CIO, and Writers Guild of America, West, Burbank, CA: Prepared

statement

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Shapiro, Ira, General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative:

Prepared statement

75

Smith, Eric H., executive director and general counsel, International

Intellectual Property Alliance: Prepared statement

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