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mittee has provided compensation to the copyright owner for signals retransmitted (secondary transmision) beyond the local market area.
This bill goes a long way toward completing the revision of the copyright laws, but some work remains to be done. In particular, the Committee should go forward to complete its study and possibly to report legislation on the subject of performers’ rights. Also, the new but imminent problems which will inevitably stem from the secondary transmission of electronic communications across national bounndaries by cable, microwave and satellite must be anticipated and provided for in the very near future,—they are nearly upon us. The subject of design patents received some consideration during the hearings but was eliminated from the final bill since there was not sufficient time to review the subject fully. In addition, design patent would probably be more suited for inclusion in other legislation rather than in a copyright revision bill.
George E. Danielson.
