Video Competition, Multichannel Programming
Video Competition, Multichannel Programming

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13:

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"Today we consider both H.R. 2921, the Multichannel and Video Competition and Consumer Protection Act of 1997, or the CARP bill; ... as well as H.R. 3210, the Copyright Compulsory License Improvement Act ..." The CARP bill addresses the narrow issues of the recent increase in copyright fees for direct home satellite providers, the other bill tries to resolve a variety of complex issues that arise in both copyright and communications laws. Cf. Page 1.

Retransmission and U. S. Compliance with TRIPs
Retransmission and U. S. Compliance with TRIPs

Author: David J. Brennan

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9041189017

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This book seeks to answer one central question: do the U.S. cable and satellite retransmission statutory licenses comply with the TRIPs minimum standard? As with all legal problems, the resolution of ambiguity provides the challenge and the interest. In this regard, by far the greatest ambiguity is created by the use of the term 'equitable renumeration' in the TRIPs retransmission norm. Resort will be had to not only the drafting history of the TRIPs incorporated Berne Convention article, but also to the discipline of economics and to the field of restitutionary monetary awards in common law countries, to seek to provide a meaning for that term. This book is unique in so far as it purports to undertake to provide an analysis whereby a TRIPs compliance issue is considered fully at a theoretical level in an attempt to provide an answer. In so doing, it is hoped that the analysis will provide a methodology for the consideration of the compliance of national laws with intellectual property treaty obligations, which is of use to anyone who may wish to consider such compliance issues in the future.