Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hatched last week in the Manhattan offices of Adman Byron G. Moon was an ingenious scheme to end fabric design piracy. No matter how novel the design, fabrics cannot be successfully patented. Yet songs can be copyrighted. Ingenious Mr. Moon's idea is to use the title or a snatch of the lyric of a copyrighted song to designate print designs, thus extending to dress materials Tin Pan Alley's copyright protection. Adman Moon sees no reason why Night and Day should not identify a black & white print, and April in Paris a design of horse-chestnut blossoms...
...artist's model, and a photographer's artist model at that, everybody has just oodies of fun and he result often finds Mr. Justice Roberts staring unashamed into the coy, but deeply soulful eyes a trifle distorted by the wirephoto process, of a girl, whose spirit is forever fresh (copyright, 1937, by "Inside Detective" and "Front Page Detective Magazines...
...shrewd speculator can acquire valuable privileges by buying a seat on the Stock Exchange. Its copyright title is derived from a card game called Make a Million, in which the pack contains bull and bear cards. Jury Box is an effort to combine in practical form the sadistic appeal of crime stories with the masochistic fascination of the puzzle. It is a box of six envelopes, each of which contains a description of, and all the material necessary for, the solution of a serious crime. The host acts as district attorney, passes out evidence to his guests, who form...
Bank Night is a copyright scheme invented by a onetime Fox booking agent named Charles U. Yaeger, who leases it to theatres for from $5 to $50 a week depending on their size. What it amounts to is a clever evasion of state & municipal lottery laws whereby, by registering his name at a theatre, a patron becomes eligible to win a substantial prize if he is present at the theatre on "Bank Night"- when the prize is awarded to the holder of a lucky ticket after a drawing on the theatre stage. Since Bank Nights started in 1931, Inventor Yaeger...
...this manifesto last week were fixed the names of eight greater and lesser U. S. artists: Alfred Stieglitz, Alexander Brook, William Gropper, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Sloan. Ever since copyright laws have been in existence it has been possible for artists or owners of pictures to copyright them, prevent their reproduction without due authority. Explaining last week's manifesto, grey-haired Spokesman John Sloan, famed painter of New York street scenes, longtime president of the Society of Independent Artists, pointed out that what he and his distinguished friends and their recently engaged...