08120 W liCL NOVEMBER 20, 1971 $1.25 a A BILLBOARD PUBLICATION oz SEVENTY- SEVENTH YEAR The International Music-Record-Tape Newsweekly CARTRIDGE TV PAGE 38 HOT 100 PAGE 88 0 TOP LP'S PAGES 90, 92 NEW BOOTLEG BATTLES FLAIR FCC Pondering 2 Major Counterfeit Actions Filed; Electronic Logs 'Legal' Duplicators Fight Back By MILDRED HALL LOS ANGELES -The continu- By PAUL ACKERMAN WASHINGTON - New record- for the original producer of the ing anti -piracy litigation, pioneered ings made on or after Feb. 15, record. SALT LAKE CITY -The door by Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp NEW YORK -The first legal 1972, which can be copyrighted Unfortunately, the rulemaking was left ajar for disk and tape since 1968, reached a peak here action under the new Federal anti - under the recently passed anti - has encountered considerable de- counterfeiting a n d bootlegging this week when four clients, A &M piracy law -S.646 -was initiated piracy law, will be able to encode lays and it may still "take a little when Federal District Court Judge records, first record company to last week when 60 publisher prin- this fact along with other identi- time" say engineers for the FCC to Hillis W. Ritter here issued a tern - file a counterfeit complaint; and cipals of the Harry Fox Agency, fication, for subliminal transmis- decide what type of system to au- porary restraining order against Atlantic, Columbia and Warner acting through attorneys Abeles sion in radio play. This would be thorize. RCA Corp., Columbia Broadcast- Bros. labels filed complaints seek- and Clark. started an action in the another of the benefits in the Two systems, Audicom of New ing System, the American Broad- ing damages, injunctive relief and U.S. District Court for the South- FCC's proposed rulemaking to per- York, and International Digisonics casting System and Ampex Corp., accounting for unfair competition em District of Florida, Miami Di- mit automatic electronic monitor- Corp. (IDC) have been undergo- Wednesday (10). and just enrichment against over vision, against 52 separate defend- ing of radio programming and the ing extensive tests and research. The order restrains the four 50 retail outlets in southern Cali- ants, charging them with boot- aural part of TV programming Each claims superiority in the rule - companies from "interferring with fornia. Suit was instituted in su- legging. The publishers have re- (Billboard, June 20). making which began originally or harassing the plaintiffs by in- perior court here. quested that the court impose the Engineering spokesmen at the with encoding plans for TV com- stituting or prosecuting any legal Defendants and their businesses new heavy penalties authorized by Federal Communications Commis- mercial monitoring, in 1969. or equitable actions in the courts included: S.646. sion point out that tape duplication Audicom, with its "Submerged of several states against the plain- (Continued on page 94) Heretofore, publishers were able of a recording (whether for legiti- Signalling" Crosby system, was tiffs or any other persons relating to recover royalties of 2 cents for mate radio broadcast or for piracy first to ask for authorization of to the manufacturing, producing, each infringing recording. plus purposes) would pick up the orig- aural encoding. Tile identifying distributing or selling of magnetic treble damages of 6 cents. Under inal manufacturer's encoded infor- signals, which will not be audible musical tapes or otherwise." the new law, publishers may re- mation, including serial numbers. Spotlight to the radio listener, would be Plaintiffs referred to are two cover all profits realized from the It would be impossible to delete stamped into records or tapes to sale of bootleg product plus dam- the encoding, which would be local owners of recording industry be broadcast. Electronic monitors businesses: Stan D. Schubach. On Spain ages or, in lieu thereof, $1 for each "mixed in" with the music on the would pick up and transmit them infringing tape cartridge made, record -another identification plus owner of Tape Head, Inc., local (Continued on page 94) record and tape retailer, and R.A. used, sold or found in the posses- Ridges, owner of R.A. Ridges In This Issue sion of defendants; but not less 1 I l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l p l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l (Continued on page 94) (Continued on page 94) Emphasis on APAA Show See Tape Cartridge Section ! Kodak Super -8 CTV ABC -Ampex Plot Consumer Aims at Home User By ELIOT TIEGEL Catalog Saturation Plan LOS ANGELES -Eastman Kodak's contribution to By JOHN SIPPEL cartridge television is a $900 videoplayer which will be sold as an "optional" means of viewing Super 8mm PORTLAND, Ore.- ABC -Dun- program in a test control area is color movies. hill's family of labels and Ampex the insertion of a 32 -page three - The videoplayer is part of the Super 8 system which tapes are combining in what is color 10 by 7 -inch "Super Grooves" probably the biggest pre- Christmas Kodak continues to advance. The cartridge TV unit. consumer catalog in 450,000 copies which won't ready for sale for another two years. saturation program in a single area of Sunday's Portland Oregonian. be to reach the consumer ever. Dennis is "a major investment to prove film won't be ob- An additional 150,000 copies of' the solete," admits Marvin Hodges, sales director for Lavinthal, national sales director catalog will be distributed by the of ABC, said the promotion is a Kodak's motion picture and education markets divi- Meyer chain. The catalog is dot- sion. trial run, with ABC and Ampex ted with informative facts for con- hoping it will be duplicated na- sumers, with approximately eight This division will be the first to market the player tionally by others soon. of the pages devoted to subtle -sell which accepts standard Super 8mm cartridges and The 23 Fred Meyer shopping facts about acts and the record which electronically transmits the images through a centers, a chain of retail outlets business in general. Included with cable connection to the antenna terminals of any ranging from groceries through each catalog is a fold -in order standard TV set. major home appliances in greater sheet, which carries 170 varied At the first West Coast showing of the unit, Hodges Portland -Vancouver, kick off a catalog and current hit albums Helen Reddy, one of the major talent finds of 1971, has made the following points: multithousand -dollar mutual direct - from the affiliated ABC catalogs. recorded a new album, Helen Reddy (Capitol ST 857), released The videoplayer has been invented to provide to- the -consumer record and today. Helen gained immediate fame earlier in the year with tape George Sommersby of the Meyer a TV capability for anyone wanting or needing that merchandising program Sunday chain set retail pricing. For ex- her inspired interpretation of "I Don't Know How to Love (14) mode of display. that will continue right up to ample, $5.98 suggested list LP's Him" from Jesus Christ, Superstar. In numerous concert and Dec. 24. The program also in- club appearances, from the Troubadour in Los Angeles to Kodak is presently in the discussion stage with sell for $4.64 during the sale, while cludes nine Meyer stores in greater The Bitter End in New York, Helen has enraptured audiences "less than 10" U.S. based TV set suppliers anent man- Seattle. Westminster Gold albums go for and reviewers. Her new single, "No Sad Song" (3231), writ- ufacturing the unit, and expects to have this situation Hightlight of the test run to $1.88. 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