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7. To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 23 (statement
of John Philip Sousa, composer).
8. To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 283–84
(statement of Albert Walker, representative of the Auto-Music Perforating
Company of New York).
9. To Amend and Consolidate the Acts Respecting Copyright, 376 (prepared
memorandum of Philip Mauro, general patent counsel of the American
Graphophone Company Association).
10. Copyright Law Revision: Hearings on S. 2499, S. 2900, H.R. 243, and
H.R. 11794 Before the ( Joint) Committee on Patents, 60th Cong., 1st
sess., 217 (1908) (statement of Senator Reed Smoot, chairman), reprinted
in Legislative History of the 1909 Copyright Act, E. Fulton Brylawski and
Abe Goldman, eds. (South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1976).
11. Copyright Law Revision: Report to Accompany H.R. 2512, House Committee
on the Judiciary, 90th Cong., 1st sess., House Document no. 83, 66
(8 March 1967). I am grateful to Glenn Brown for drawing my attention
to this report.
12. See 17 United States Code, sections 106 and 110. At the beginning, record
companies printed “Not Licensed for Radio Broadcast” and other messages
purporting to restrict the ability to play a record on a radio station.
Judge Learned Hand rejected the argument that a warning attached to a
record might restrict the rights of the radio station. See RCA Manufacturing
Co. v. Whiteman, 114 F. 2d 86 (2nd Cir. 1940). See also Randal C.
Picker, “From Edison to the Broadcast Flag: Mechanisms of Consent and
Refusal and the Propertization of Copyright,” University of Chicago Law
Review 70 (2003): 281.
13. Copyright Law Revision—CATV: Hearing on S. 1006 Before the Subcommittee
on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Senate Committee
on the Judiciary, 89th Cong., 2nd sess., 78 (1966) (statement of
Rosel H. Hyde, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission).
14. Copyright Law Revision—CATV, 116 (statement of Douglas A. Anello,
general counsel of the National Association of Broadcasters).
15. Copyright Law Revision—CATV, 126 (statement of Ernest W. Jennes,
general counsel of the Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.).
16. Copyright Law Revision—CATV, 169 (joint statement of Arthur B.
Krim, president of United Artists Corp., and John Sinn, president of
United Artists Television, Inc.).
17. Copyright Law Revision—CATV, 209 (statement of Charlton Heston,
president of the Screen Actors Guild).
18. Copyright Law Revision—CATV, 216 (statement of Edwin M. Zimmerman,
acting assistant attorney general).
19. See, for example, National Music Publisher’s Association, The Engine of Free
Expression: Copyright on the Internet—The Myth of Free Information, avail-
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