University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1983
Page 5
Recorder
From page 1
market, Rasmussen said, banning them would be difficult and unfair, so a royalty tax seems to be the best option.
Mike Davenport, sales representative for Ed Marling Stores, 825 Massachusetts St., which sells video cassette recorders, said that by 2013 he had sold the movie industry had been trying to perplex him.
Davenport said that his customers did not like the idea of the tax but that they would probably pay it.
"They are penalizing me because I do things I want to do at my convenience. My prime time is when I'm eating breakfast."
Another argument made by people in the movie industry is that movie inventories and reruns of movies would become practical, worthless as home libraries rewe
MANEU ACTURETS OF VCRs content that no evidence supports the notion that video cassette tape is more portable.
"In our opinion, home taping poses no threat," said Schlosser of Home Record Rights, particularly since most people are taping at birth in order to watch at a more convenient time.
"We reject the notion that people are building inviariens. There's not one idea of evidence to support it."
The Consumer Electronic Group of the Electronic Industries Association, whose member companies account for more than 95 percent of all VCRs, offers statistics to support his argument.
IT CITES surveys indicating that 70 to 90 percent of VCR owners tape television programs primarily for "time-shifting" purposes — tapping a program for replay at a more convenient time.
Only a small percentage record copyrighted material to build home libraries.
Manufacturers also say that the main use of VCRs is time-shifting
Because of the high cost of blank tapes compared to the cost of renting pre-recorded tapes, building a library is uneconomical, the Consumer Electronic Group says.
Video rentals in Lawrence have increased tremendously over the past year because more movies are being released more quickly, said Kareem Srinivasan, owner of Seri-Tronics, 23rd and Louisiana Street.
SERVI-TRONICS rents tapes for $3 a day to members and $6 a day to not-members, she also charges $10 for each tape.
Prices probably will increase slightly if a royalty tax is added to VCB equipment, she said.
Schlosser of Home Recording Rights said that the U.S. had 20,000 to 25,000 video retailers and 800 to 1,000 web sites.
If this estimate is correct, and if a machine is used by more than one person, Schlosser said, about 15 million potential "copyright criminals" were in the country.
Although technology for home video taping was developed in the 1950s, significant copyright problems did not begin until 1976, the year after that. The software of America introduced the Betamax video recorder
SONY'S SALES pitch to consumers did not say anything about potential copyright problems. For $2,295, the advertisements said, a viewer would never again have to worry about missing a program because he was sleeping, out of the house or watching another channel. It was simple, the ads said, just plug it in, turn it on and tape any program.
The controversy over home taping grew, and no compromise between VCR manufacturers and the motion picture industry could be reached.
In 1976, Universal Studios and Walt Disney Productions售票 Sony and several retailers for $80 million.
In 1979, a Los Angeles federal judge sided with Sony in ruling that film makers had not shown the VCR had harmed the industry. He said that it violated within the fair-use exception to the copyright laws.
THE FAIR USE exception permits limited copying for educational or research purposes.
That decision was overturned in 1881 by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. That court said companies that manufactured and distributed video recorders, the advertising agencies that promoted them and consumers who used them were liable for damages.
The court based its decision on two factors.
The first factor was that a 1971 amendment to the 1999 copyright statute did not authorize videotaping for home use, although private citizens were permitted to record radio broadcasts.
The entire copyright law was rewritten in 1976 and is basically the same as the old law, said Ainsworth, law professor. But because the 1971 Supreme Court ruled in court, it is the basis of all legal arguments.
SECONDLY, THE court hold that tapping an entire show did not fall under the fair-use exemption. Taping with a Betamax, the court shames the potential market for a studio's work.
The fate of home taping now depends on the Supreme Court's decision. On the other hand, the
loser in that decision probably will seek a legislative solution.
According to Madison Avenue magazine, the Court would have difficulty, based on the legal arguments presented, not upholding the decision of the Ninth Court Circuit.
Once the Supreme Court ruling is announced, Congress will begin action on the bills calling for the repeal of the landmark Roe v. Wade law.
However, the magazine said, past Supreme Court rulings on copyright cases show that the court might side with manufacturers and rule that home taping is legal.
IF SOME kind of consumer-paid royalty tax is passed, the growth of the VCR industry could be slowed. See Schlosser of Home Recording Rights. Moreover, the market could shift to video disc players, which play movies on the PC. Congress has not discussed taxing the disc players.
If Congress decides that VCR owners are free to tape programs without compensating the copyright owners, prices of VCRs and tapes may rise considerably. Schlosser said.
Copyright owners could increase their prices to the networks. The networks could then pass the increase on to their advertisers, and the advertisers to consumers, he said.
But despite the controversy, VCR sales are growing.
Mike Sutton, an employee at AudioTronics, 928 Massachusetts St., said that more Lawrence residents were buying VCRs this year than last year.
BUT HE SAID the low price was the biggest factor in the increased sales, not the threat of a
From page 1
Pope
marked by Sandista groups who shouted,
"What about the thousands of marchers? How
about a prayer for the heroes of the revolution?
We want peace!"
Another hard day faces the pope today, as he meets in Guatemala with Gen. Iraim Rios Mont, head of the military junta that ordered the execution Wednesday of six men accused of terrorist acts. The Vatican issued a statement Wednesday afternoon that called the timing of the executions "incredible," and the executions themselves "deplorable."
DESPITE REPORTS from the government of El Salvador that there was a guerrilla plot to assassinate him and a report by the guerrillas that the government planned to kill him, the
pope's visit to El Salvador was not marked by any serious security incidents.
However, at the mass there, John Paul shouted "eough of violence," and urged 500,000 battle-weary Salvadorans to end the "spiral of hate" in their country.
Rebel priests appealed to the pope to denounce the persecution of the Catholic church in El Salvador, where 17 priests, nuns and layworkers have been killed in five years.
Miquel Angel Ventura and Rogelio Ponsele, two priests who work in guerrilla-held territory, released a letter also asking John Paul "not to ignore the bloody repression" of the Salvadoran people.
Information for this story was also supplied by United Press International.
WWII victims rejoined after 38 years
By United Press International
TOKYO — A woman was reunited with her daughter in a tearful embrace yesterday, 38 years after the child and two siblings were separated by war. Other strangers cries from attracting invading Soviet troops.
"This scar proves she is my daughter," 64-year-old Tome Ohta said as she pointed to the throat of her daughter. The reunion was in Shizuoka, 60 miles south of Tokyo.
left in Chira when Soviet troops poured into Manchuria in August 1945. The reunion was arranged by the governments of China and Japan.
"IT ME SORRY. I thought you were dead." Ohata said to her 43-year-old daughter Yasuko, who was picked up by a Chinese family and reared as Wang Su-mei.
Wang was among 45 people who arrived in Japan last week in search of Japanese relatives
"It's so good to be home, so nice to be home." Wang said.
Ohata and her husband, along with other Japanese families, had lived in a village in China's Heilongjiang Province, the former Manchuria, until the final days of World War II.
"ONE DAY, all of a sudden Russian tanks roared into the village." Ohta said.
She said that she hid in the bushes with her three daughters. Sachiko, 2, Hiroko, 4, and Yuyao.
But Japanese troops, fearful the children's cries may alert the approaching Russians, basked in triumph.
Rats
From page 1
"The pilot said, "There is a problem in the first class section."
Brydon said a flight attendant ran forward and immediately ran back and said, "There's a
LATER, BRYDON said, she informed passengers that it was a rat
"The stewardess said it was not unusual," Brydon said of the presence of the rat, which was found on a recent (fight bound for New York). "She said they come out of the (fight kitchen), and once ran up her arm out of a food service tray.
"I decided not to eat, I guess they trapped or killed it. I did have another drink," bouch'
The San Francisco flight attendant, who asked not to be identified, said she had seen three rats and "I've seen flight logbooks with 'mouse' or entries. You're supposed to report these things."
Another American flight attendant, based in San Francisco, confirmed there were sanitary problems in the two huge Sky Chefs facilities in Dallas and supplied the food for (or American Airlines flights.
FEDERAL FOOD and Drug Administration documents showed that American's Dallas kitchen facilities, where some 20,000 meals a day are prepared for nationwide flights, twice came close to being forced for unsafe sanitary conditions.
The health inspection reports showed Sky Chef was placed on "provisional" status for 60 days late last year following two inspections that required immediate action in problems requiring immediate attention, including:
- an employee wearing a bandage whose bands came in direct contact with food and could lead to infection*
- dirty cups and a dirty fork on prepared food trays ready to be loaded aboard aircraft.
- a dishwashing machine that did not heat utensils enough to destroy bacteria.
- a leak from a kitchen ceiling that was leaking directly into a kitchen area where foods were being prepared.
- numerous flies observed in the kitchen area and some flies seen on foods be prepared.
He said the Sky Chef facilities had an outstanding record.
American Airlines spokesman Paul Haney confirmed the incident but said, "Rodents on planes are extremely rare."
The first provisional rating was issued after an inspection Oct. 5, 1982. Another inspection followed on Oct. 28. It noted improvements but continued the low rating because of additional
A third inspection Dec 9 showed that the Dallas bills were corrected. Morgan said
How to procrastinate tastefully.
Pour yourself a cup of Irish Mocha Mint. Chocolate, with a hint of mint, it's a delicious way to postpone the inevitable. And it's just one of
GENERAL FOODS* INTERNATIONAL COFFEEES
AS MUCH A FEELING AS A FLAVOR
VOID 3-17-83
VOID 3-17-83
THE SANCTUARY
GENERAL FOODS
union bookstores
c 1982 General Foods Corporation
main union level 2 satellite shop
THIS COUPON IS GOOD ANYTIME FOR A DIME DRAW
1401 W. 7th
Local DELIVERY Available
---
KINGSIZE
Westridge Shopping Center
TRIPLE TOPPING AND 32 oz. PEPSI
$8.50 PLUS TAX
Expires 3/31
DELIVERED
FINISHED STYLES
Shampoo • Hammer • Hairdryer
$12 for Men and Women
$12 for Joggers or Glory
The Hair Station (913) 841-6599
1119 Massachusetts
KVM
Housing Problems Got You Down?
So, Kaw Valley Management, Inc, can help with all your housing problem!
FREE Rental Assist.
(913) 841-6080 Suite 205, 901 Kentuck
842-0600
Boyds Coins-Antiques
Class Rings
Boys Save Shoes
Gold Silver-Coins
131 Antique Watches
Harmonics
Lawrence, Kansas 66044 913-842-8773
TUESDAY: 2 for 1 all night