Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexander McGuffey, have sold 124,000,000 copies in the U. S., yield only to the Bible and Webster's Dictionary in circulation. The Readers spread to 37 States, reached their crest around 1880, still roll up small, steady royalties for American Book Co. which now holds the copyright. Of this wealth Author McGuffey had a modest share. He sold his copyright for $500 and 10% royalties up to $1,000. His publishers paid him a salary for supervising revisions, an annuity after the Civil...
...Copyright, 1936, by Time...
Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt...
...have too much pride to stand indebted to Great Britain for books to learn our children the letters of the alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse the State legislatures to protect this home growth by copyright. The book caught on, in spite of a frontispiece of Webster resembling a porcupine, which a hostile reviewer said would frighten even a patriotic child...
...Reproduced by permission of the copyright owner, Chappell...