Word: act
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...plans to publish a Harry Potter lexicon. By the standard of Rowling’s complaint, Joseph Campbell could not have published the invaluable “Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake” five years after Joyce published his masterwork. The “act for the encouragement of learning” is being used to empower an author to censor an unapproved explication of her works...
...act for the encouragement of learning,” read the original copyright statute, signed into law by George Washington in 1790. The Constitution stated the act’s single purpose: “to promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Copyright was a deal between individuals and society—authors got just enough monopoly rights to incentivize them to benefit society through their creativity...
...chosen with skill: large enough to hurt, but small enough that litigating would cost more. An industry spokesman responded in The Crimson that thievery is thievery. Bills were introduced in some state legislatures that would punish universities for students’ downloading. Such laws would force universities to act as agents of the recording industry, censors of digital information flowing into students’ rooms. Universities are the last places where communications should be monitored; under such laws, they would be the only residential settings in America subject to routine monitoring...
...lord over rivals with sepia-toned stories of the old days. But at least we’re open about our faults. Most annoying of all is the Bostonian tendency to play the underdog. “Not even Red Sox fans, but all Boston fans want to act like they’re the underdog,” Kumar said. Sixteen Celtics championships in the NBA, the Patriots’ ongoing semi-dynasty in the NFL (thank you Eli), and... well, not the Bruins, but the point stands.But I’m not bitter, just bruised. It?...
...Others have expressed concern over the way the Federal Council - Switzerland's executive government - has unilaterally handled this matter, bypassing the courts and parliament. "If the government wanted to act on behalf of the U.S, it needed to maintain as much secrecy as possible in case those documents really were a threat to the security of the state," says Thomas Fleiner, director of the Federalism Institute at Fribourg University. "But such an evaluation should have been done by the court and not by the executive branch...