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Battalion/Page ij April 7 national Battalion/Page 11 April 7, 1982 Estimate about $3 million lost in 1980 Hie boss will often J "g immediately f or l ment - ThenJ >e 1S really stuck lie job he had, anji if was offered elsedil ieon filled in the aJ ider-the-gun raises J solutions for the J . too, Kushell said, J lany should realize 1 doesn’t createacotl loyee. Recording industry fights home taping United Press International NASHVILLE, Term. — There’s a billion-dollar battle shaping up in Congress pitting a star-studded cast of entertainers and the recording industry against some of the big corpo rate names in America. The result will affect every American who listens to music — especially those who own tape recorders or buy blank record ing tape. Entertainers record music and record companies press re cords to make a profit. But due to increased technology and lower prices, there’s been an ex plosion of home taping of music. The record industry esti mates this year’s loss in record sales amounts to $1 billion to $3 billion out of the pockets of per formers, songwriters, music publishers, musicians, retailers, wholesalers and all the com panies that service the recording industry. “Home taping is here to stay,” admits Stanley M. Gortikov, president of the Recording In dustry Association of America, a trade association for the record industry. “But you can’t go into a store, buy a loaf of bread and take along with it a can of coffee wit fl out paying for it. Why should you be able to take someone else’s intellectual property and music if you can’t take tangible items? “It’s a form of shoplifting.” A study by the Roper Organi zation in 1979 showed that 22 percent of the population en gages in home taping, either from the radio or borrowed or bought records. 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Bring in your prescription or give us a call for an exact price quote. n (S More recent studies indicati the loss is even more staggering j The International Tape Asso j ciation estimates there were 27;) million blank 90-minute cassetU j tapes sold in the United States it | 1980. Figuring an album each side, that’s about 550 millior | potential album sales. Subtrac 150 million for “legitimate! uses, and you come up with 40( ! million albums — or somewhert | around $3 billion. That doesn’ include sale of 8-track or reel-to reel tapes. “The problem is even worse' in other parts of the world that ; j it is in the United States,” said Jack Reinstein, senior vice presi-j; dent at Elektra-Asylum Re : cords. “It’s probably what’s des-, ! troying the British record busi-j ness at this point.” “When you lose a sale because of home taping, that becomes a: cost factor,” said Bob Altshuler of CBS Records Group in New York. “We believe there will have to be legislation enacted ini order to curb the activity.” Recording industry officials believe implications of the “Be-f tamax” decision involving home videotaping of television prog rams could be the savior of their; audio taping dilemma. In a case brought by Univer- ! sal City against the Sony Corp.,; the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals! ruled that off-the-air taping of copyrighted TV programming constitutes copyright infringe ment. The decision, in effect, made a criminal of every person who uses a videotape player to record off the television set. Legislation has been intro duced in Congress to exempt home videotaping. Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Maryland, has offered an amendment that will charge those who sell videotape recording devices and blank videotapes a “compensatory royalty” to be paid to the copyr- ! ight holder. The recording industry is trying to expand the amend- ( ment to cover audio taping. Hearings are slated in April in the Judiciary Committees of both Houses. The National Music Pub- ;; lishers Association says it would !j be “grossly inequitable” if Con gress allows a reasonable royalty for video products but overlooks “the even more serious issue of Those opposed to the amend ment are the makers and impor ters of blank tape and audio re cording devices and consumers who will have to pick up the tab for any royalty. Bill Baker, vice president of corporate communications for Sony Corp. of America, a major manufacturer of blank tape and recording devices, said any com pensatory royalty would amount to a “windfall tax” for the re cording industry. “Whether the public wants to pay a tax for what they’ve been able to do for years at no addi tional cost is very debatable,” he says. “I think consumers should speak out and let their feelings be known.” Gortikov believes the blank tape industry should be more sympathetic. Scanner to indicate diseases United Press International A futuristic new antimatter scanning machine may one day make it possible to spot heart disease, cancer and metabolic disorders up to 10 years before symptoms become visible — and in time for a cure. Positron emission tomogra phy (PET) uses the antimatter equivalent of the electron — the positron — much the same way as conventional scanners now use X-rays to spot illness, according to Science Digest magazine. The PET scanner, the maga zine says, is better because it not only shows obvious problem areas such as tumors, but it indi cates metabolic dysfunctions that could lead to disease long before the disease becomes visible. Dr. Lance Could, head of the University of Texas Medical School PET project said: “We’ve never before been able to see what PET at last lets us see: the actual metabolic, functional and anatomic characteristics of dif ferent diseases and disorders long before they’re of emergen cy proportions.” »