STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1142-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2775

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2775, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLICITY RIGHTS NAMES AS DISTINGUISHED FROM TRADE NAMES AND SPECIFYING REGISTRATION PROCEDURES FOR PUBLICITY RIGHTS NAMES BY AMENDING CHAPTER 482P,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the publicity rights trade name law by, among other things:

 

     (1)  Renaming "publicity rights trade name" as "publicity rights name" to distinguish it from trade names and trademarks;

 

     (2)  Specifying procedures for registering a publicity rights name; and

 

     (3)  Limiting the term of registration to five years while permitting subsequent five-year renewals.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making it effective upon its approval.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2775, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2775, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary,

 

 

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JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair

 

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair