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Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks

U.S. Adherence to the Berne Convention 

Type: Subcommittee Hearing
Date:
Time: 09:40am
Location: Russell Senate Office Building Room SR-385

Panel 1

  • Arpad Bogsch

    Director General
    World Intellectual Property Organization
    Geneva, Switzerland

  • Elinor Constable

    Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
    U.S. Department of State
    Washington, D.C.

  • Harvey Winter

  • Barbara Ringer

    Former Register of Copyrights
    Washington, D.C.

  • Donald C. Curran

    Acting Register of Copyrights
    Library of Congress
    Washington, D.C.

  • Dorothy Schrader

    General Counsel

  • Lewis Flacks

    Policy Planning Adviser

  • Donald J. Quigg

    Acting Commissioner for Patents and Trademarks
    Patents and Trademarks Office
    Washington, D.C.

  • Michael C. Hathaway Esq

    Deputy General Counsel
    U.S. Trade Representative
    Washington, D.C.

Panel 2

  • Irwin Karp

    Chairman
    Ad Hoc Working Group on U.S. Adherence to the Berne Convention
    New York, NY

  • John Kernochan

    Nash Professor of Law
    Columbia University School of Law
    Washington, D.C.

Panel 3

  • Carol Risher

    Director of Copyright
    Association of American Publishers
    Washington, D.C.

  • Norman Alterman

    Vice President
    Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
    Washington, D.C.

  • Leonard Feist

    Former President
    National Music Publishers' Association
    New York, NY

  • Vico E. Henriques

    President
    Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
    Washington, D.C.

  • Morton David Goldberg

    Proprietary Rights Counsel
    Information Industry Association
    Washington, D.C.

Panel 4

  • August W. Steinhilber

    Associate Executive Director and General Counsel
    National School Boards Association
    Alexandria, VA

  • Edward A. Merlis

    Vice President
    Government Relations
    National Cable Television Association
    Washington, D.C.

  • Harry R. Olson Jr.

    General Attorney
    CBS Inc.
    New York, NY

  • Elroy Wolff

    Amusement and Music Operators Association
    Washington, D.C.

  • Garson Kanin

    President
    The Authors League of America, Inc.
    New York, NY

  • Tad Crawford

    Counsel
    Graphic Artists Guild
    New York, NY
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