European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 03, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday August 3, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 19 random note oooo from by Fred schruers Hen character actor will grandpa Walton Geer died earlier this year at age /76, he left a child a much loved actor s work i w j shop Topanga Canyon s the atrium Botani icum and such fast friends As the Doobie Brothers who recently hosted a Geer tribute at the 1.000-seat catalyst Chib in Santa Cruz. More than 6,000 people tried to get unto one of two sets and Limos bearing Jane Fonda thei pull and tenure Shirley Hemphll of what s happen a Yeavon Luule and the Walton clan threaded their to the club door. Boobies vocalist Patrick Simmons told the audience Geer sometimes appeared unexpectedly in the wings ii the band raise a Little hell up Davidh soul Sang with a backup band that included Enard Green Andy Kylberg and Norton Buffalo. And boobies backed Jon Walmsley Jason on the Wol i before playing their own 75-minute set with a Handi former Doobie Tommy Johnston listen to the a. Both Johnston and the boobies will have new sea out in october. After the shows which raised ,0,000 for Geer s nonprofit workshop the band partied the beat of Martha and the Vandepas. Reunited for t first time in 10 years. Ton John in Tennis shorts baseball Cap and five o clock Shadow stood morosely for promo shots at a y marking a distribution Deal Between Ria Andion s own rocket records. Asked if he d tour behind i forthcoming album. Elton said never. I have no sire to members of Paw cruise Apig on an Indianapolis radio talk show found them on the air with caller Connie lungs a local Ripper who said she plays their Ocean Breeze As a will Geer tribute in Santa Cruz. Wind machine blows her clothes off during the show finale. Catcher in the Rye author . Salinger emerged from his new Hampshire Retreat to attend a Queens new York dinner honouring . War buddy John Keenan re tiring new York City chief of detectives. Salinger said he has finished a Long in the works Book length romantic War Story. Willy device. Who hated touring with Elvis costello i think he dresses Lousy will Supply soundtrack music for Paul Schrader s forthcoming film hard Core about a runaway girl whose father George trails her into the porno underworld. The songs included Are Cadillac walk and Spanish Sissy Spacek will act in a movie about Loretta Lynn s life Story but turning s been delayed for script changes. To Desi Arnaz Ricky Ricardo returns. Relta says she was married at age 13 and did t knowhow babies were made until i was pregnant with my fourth child five years foreigner Leader Mick Jones says he s amazed at the group s Rush into a Mammoth sales bracket a year ago we were starving rehearsing every Day in a Low rent area of new York. Now we go to Japan and people know who we 1 grow too old to dream a Chestnut that s been recorded by Louis Arm Strong and Lawrence Welk will appear on Linda Ron Stadt s new album in a rearrangement by a ibis Mik Manieri. Aide Caramba Des Anax or. Will record and tour behind disco versions of the songs the Rick Ricardo band played on / love Lucy. 1c 97�kii of turn Syndicate record and tape pirates Industry sings the blues tto by Edwin Mcdowell new York times Century after piracy was stamped out itis once again a International problem. But today s pirates no longer sport colourful names like bluebeard or Captain Kidd. Instead they do business under such Ordinary names As Avis Barnes and the treasure they seek is not Dou is or pieces of eight but motion pictures and phone r i records and in june Barnes was sentenced to two years in son and fined $20,000 for his part in shipping pirated Ion picture prints from new York to South Africa i and Swaziland. He pleaded guilty to four felony according to Federal prosecutors Barnes shipped a than 800 pirated film prints last year including. Wars with a value Barnes said was in excessof0,000. Piracy is an extremely serious and growing Busi Ness said Homer a. Porter a supervisory special agent with the Fri in los Angeles. It s so easy to become a pirate. For an investment of $z,000, pirates Are ranking $5,000 a week by the end of the firs month. Some Are making a million dollars a investigators and Industry sources say pirates made a a with Elvis Presley records and tapes in the after of the Singer s death. Over the years an estimated copies of the Ria corp s sound of music album produced and sold by pirates sources say. One Reg company executive talking recently about the us John denver1 greatest Hus made in 1974. Said May not be far off to say that pirates sold As Many pies As Ria did most pirated items Are sold at citrate prices to record ores or on Street Corners. A growing number Are ship id overseas to such centers of the piracy Trade As South a Africa and saudi Arabia. The bolder pirates advertise their wares in newspapers and magazines and some even print Glossy catalogues. Pirates can produce re words for $1.50 each and eight track tapes for 80 cents. Slice they pirate Only the most popular items there is la Way a ready audience for what they produce. The same is True of films which can be copied for a Tri Cost and in the Case of such hits As Star wan or of Chi night fever sold for As much As $1.000 clubs bars and private collectors. The piracy business is booming. Last february for in -. Fri agents in los Angeles seized thousands of Tsueo cassettes of the most popular recent films. Nine months ago. Federal agents raided a Motel in Huntsville thei Leial duplication and resale of records tapes films and television shows Stamu Simillion Dollar Industry in the United states. Tex., where they seized More than $4 million Worth of pirated films. Piracy is actually a Catchall Label 16 describe Sev eral different activates. Piracy itself involves illegally duplicating and Selling movies tapes or recordings. Counterfeiting involves duplicating a recording company s Label packaging an trademark. Bootle Gugig involves illegally recording live performances or taping them from the airwaves and the peddling them. The common denominator is that All three Are illegal and none pays royalties performers fees or taxes. The loss of Federal state and local taxes is said. No one knows exactly How much Money is Yarnell. Special counsel on anti piracy activities for the recording Industry association of America says we think the Cost exceeds $200 million a year in illegal records and tapes or roughly 10 percent of the $2 Bil lion annual sales of legitimate records in the United state piracy a longstanding problem is increasing partly because of the relative ease of duplicating records and. Especially tapes. Moreover the growing popularity of video cassette tape recorders which an Arthur d Little report predicts will be in 10 percent of All american households by the mid-1980s is expected to intensify de mands for More motion pictures and other so called soft Wear the sort of goods that pirates Are eager to Supply. Few Industry sources complain about individual who tape shows off the air and replay them for their own entertainment or that of friends. But the legality of even this is not yet established in Law. Two years ago Mca Universal and Walt Disney productions sued the Sony corp., charging that its bet Amax videotape recorder encouraged copyright violations by enabling owners to tape copyrighted programs off the air. This the plaintiffs contend is illegal without Permis Sion and without payment of royalties even though no commercial use is trial is scheduled for Early next year and regard less of the initial outcome is expected to wind up in . Supreme court. Meanwhile Beta maxes and other videotape machines continue to sell and Industry insider predict that once they Are in widespread use stamping out film piracy will become As hopeless a task As was enforcing prohibition. If so it would not be for Lack of Industry Effort to Cal attention to violations. The motion picture Industry s an tip Iracy Arm has offices or affiliates throughout the world. The record Industry established its anti piracy intelligence Bureau in 1972 and like the film Industry works closely with the Fri and a half dozen other Federal agencies. Salesmen for the major record companies whose incomes depend on sales commissions Are motivated by self interest and company policy to be on the Alert for piracy. Last summer actors associations from 38 Western and communist countries resolved Ai a conference in Moscow to increase efforts to eliminate pirated television programs that deprived actors of royalties. Last septem Ber Interpol. The worldwide police organization unanimously adopted a Resolution calling on police forces around the world to fight All that is easier said than done. A new american copyright Law went into effect last Jan. 1 making the first piracy offence subject to a Fine of up to $25.000 and one year in jail. But fewer than a third of the 100 or so prosecutions in the los Angeles area where much of the piracy and anti piracy efforts Are concentrated have resulted in convictions. Industry officials assert that too Many judges treat piracy As an unimportant White Collar crime when in fact there is heavy involvement by organized crime
