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...small-car know-how sent fear into the boardrooms of Ford, Chrysler and American Motors. GM already accounts for 60% of all U.S. sales of American-made cars, while Toyota has 25% of the market for imports. "I don't care what kind of fig-leaf consent order they try to cover it up with," said Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca after last week's FTC decision. "It's not right, and I will do everything in my power to see that the American public gets a clear picture of just how wrong...
Kaufman noted that Editor Victor Navasky of the Nation had paraphrased most of what Ford wrote. Only 300 words of the 2,250-word article were taken verbatim from the manuscript. This brief borrowing of copyrighted material without the author's consent, said the court, was "fair use," a concept that allows limited quotation by journalists, critics, teachers and researchers. Dissenting Judge Thomas Meskill found a problem in the straightforward nature of the paraphrasing, however. "Copyright laws protect originality," he wrote. "They thus offer protection against a work that is substantially an unoriginal appropriation of the copyrighted work...
Wexler found "no discrimination," only a great deal of caring. The hospital has always been willing to do the surgery, he pointed out, and failed to do so "not because Baby Jane Doe is handicapped but because her parents have refused to consent to such procedures." Wexler concluded that the parents' decision was a "reasonable" one based on a "genuine concern for the best interests of the child...
Present psychiatric procedure employs electroshock therapy in cases of severe depression with suicidal possibilities, according to Dr. David Edelstein, a clinical psychiatrist with the Mental Health Association. "All medication or treatment administered requires the consent of the patient or guardian," he added...
...Consent of the patient remains a hotly debated issue. "Sure the patient may give consent, but there are many tricks involved. The doctor is usually trusted with knowing what is good for the patient, and a patient usually follows his recommendation without being fully aware of the consequences of treatment, such as loss of memory," says Judi Chamberlin, spokesman for the Mental Patients Liberation Front...