Page 2-Tuesday, June 15. 1982-The Michigan Daily Supreme Court to hear video recorder dispute WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to decide whether millions of Americans are illegally taping television shows. If the court says yes, it must also decide whether makers of home video recorders must pay for the armchair piracy. THE BILLION-dollar dispute pits movie producers against makers of the increasingly popular machines, and it already has led to several proposals in Congress to end the fight. A lower court said the video recorder makers can be forced to pay continuing royalties - or be penalized in other ways - because an estimated 5 million American families are violating federal copyright laws by taping their favorite TV programs. In the dispute, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last October held the Sony Corp. - and, in effect, other home video recorders makers - liable for "contributory infringement" for en- couraging people to reproduce copyright movies and TV programs. THE APPEALS court did not subject individual recorder owners to any penalties for their infringement, although it said retailers of the machines also are liable. The appeals court sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Warren Ferguson in Los Angeles to consider several remedies. Possible remedies included a court- ordered bar on any future in- fringement. Sony claimed that could wipe out sales of its Betamax recorder. THE 9TH Circuit Court also said Ferguson should consider a potentially enormous "continuing royalty" for in- fringement. That cost almost certainly would be passed on to consumers.. The Supreme Court is not expected to decide the case until next year. American sales of home video recor- ders and tapes will run over $1 billion this year alone, according to one in- dustry estimate. Nearly 40 million video recorders are expected to be in use in the United States by 1990. SOON AFTER the lower court rules, bills were introduced in Congress to either overturn or modify the decision. Some bills provide for royalties, based on sales of video recorders and blank videotapes, to be paid to owners of the copyright shows. None of the bills has been passed. Kanji Tamiya, president of the Sony Corporation of America, said company officials were "extremely pleased" by the court's action yesterday. Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said the issue "falls within a congressional province, not a judicial one." In other action yesterday, the nation's highest court: * Ruled 8-1 that Alaska may not distribute millions of dollars in state revenue dividends among its residents based on length of state residency. " Ruled 5-4 that labor unions may prohibit candidates for union office from accepting campaign contributions from non-members. " Said it will decide whether California or Texas has the right to tax the estate of Howard Hughes. The estate has been valued at up to $1.1 billion. Today The weather Take an umbrella - thundershowers will threaten campus today as temperatures remain in the mid 70s.Q Beep's beak, continued B EEP, THE GOOSE whose beak saga recently enthralled America, seems on the road to permanent recovery, officials as a Santa Ana, Calif., pet hospital report. Beep, the pet of hospital employees. achieved brief celebrity status by becoming the first fowl ever to receive a beak tran- splant. Beep's body rejected the transplant, however, and vets were forced to apply a prosthetic beak to the goose. Now, Beep seems to be accepting the new beak without complications, according to Bunny Ickies, a part-time employee of the Grand Avenue Pet Hospital. "She's spreading her wings ... she's looking good," Ickies commented. The fake beak was at- tached with dental cement and 14-karat gold screws during a half-hour operation. Beep's ordeal has prevented her from eating properly, Ickies said, although now the lucky bird is off gruwl and back on goose food. "She can't wait to get home where she has a swimming pool," Ickies said. Q Eau de pork P OLITICIANS MAY find that pigs produce success at the polls, a former Pentagon consultant claims. Writer Lowell Ponte, an expert on exotic warfare, says the scent of sweating pigs influences humans favorably and candidates for public office could use it to sway voters. The substance, an- drosterone, could be "used as an aerosol during political rallies, or as a fragrance in the ink of campaign literature," Ponte recommends in the current issue of Reader's Digest. Although some medical researchers disagree that swine sweat could affect human behavior so directly, Ponte thinks its possibilities are endless - so much so that he recommends the odor be outlawed before it is unleashed on the populace. L Happenings Films CFT - His Girl Friday, 3:30 & 7:15 p.m., Bringing Up Baby, 5:15 & 9 p.m., Michigan Theater. Miscellaneous CEW - Informal Job Hunt Club, noon, Center Library. Ann Arbor Go CLub - meeting, 7 p.m., 1433 Mason. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in cart of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. The Michigan Daily 4 Explosion at temple A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the rear entrance to the Beth Israel Congregation on Washtenaw late Thur- sday night. A passerby noticed the fire caused by the bomb and put it out. About $300 in damage was done to the doors and the exterior of the building. Police said the incident is still under in- vestigation. N. Division break-in There was a break-in in the 300 block of N. Division Sunday morning between 5:30 and 6:30. A male of medium height and build eentered through the front door of the residence then went into the bedroom, where he demanded money from the two occupants. He stole a wallet with $10 in cash and a knapsack. Series of rapes There were a series of rapes reported over the weekend. Police say they have arrested a man who broke into a residence on the 2300 block of Parkwood and raped a woman at knife point over the weekend. Police say the man arrested is also a susect in the rape of 30-year-old woman in the 3400 block of Edwood on May 27. The suspect is William Siebert, who is being held on $50,000 bond on each charge. Police reported that another woman was raped outside her apartment on the 2900 block of Birch Hollow. The woman, 25, was returned to her residen- ce last Wednesday evening at 11:45 p.m. when she was jumped by a man wielding a knife. A 47-year-old woman was raped early Saturday morning in her home on the 3100 block of Lake Haven, on the west side of Ann Arbor. According to police, the rapist forced his way into the home through a sliding glass door, raped the woman, and stole $10 in cash and a pur- se. Another woman was abducted and raped Friday night or early Saturday morning, according to police. the rape occurred when the woman, 19, was walking near the intersection of Eisenhower and King George. A car stopped, and the driver asked direc- tions. The woman walked over to the car to give directions, was pulled into the car, and raped. Police have made no arrests. Vol. XCII, No. 29-S Tuesday, June 15, 1982 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The Univer- sity of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 49109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. 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