Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Always frail and nervous, Ethelbert Nevin took to drink, died of apoplexy in New Haven. His widow survives. In 1909, unaided and against much opposition, she got Congress to pass a new copyright act requiring royalty payments for phonograph records and piano-rolls, and extending the renewal period for copyrights from 14 to 28 years. Mrs. Nevin also helped University of Pittsburgh to establish an Ethelbert Nevin Memorial Room full of his relics...
...fired by the prospect of this Silver Jubilee Naval Review that he had been grinding away for weeks in an effort to repeat the success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Last week 69-year-old Mr. Kipling released his poem free of copyright to anyone who would print it in full.* Silent was England's Poet Laureate, shy John Masefield. In Manhattan bold Spoon River Anthologist Edgar Lee Masters commented with a shrug: "The King and the Sea is nothing but verse-almost prose in fact. It can't be compared with...
Before that tribunal Lawyer Burkan has already won one great victory for ASCAP. In 1917 when restaurants and hotels were the principal pirates of copyrighted music the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes laid down this dictum: "If the rights under the copyright are infringed only by a performance where money is taken in at the door, they are very imperfectly protected. ... If music did not pay it would be given up. If it pays, it pays out of the public's pocket. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing it is profit, and that is enough...
...Kirkland Hose Englishman unselfishly have made no application for patent, hold no copyright on their name. On the country, members of the Kirkland Englishman welcome their Winthrop House offspring, glowing with the consciousness that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. W. H. Ledgard...
...Army & Navy reception, which wound up the White House social season, President & Mrs. Roosevelt had as their dinner guests Dr. & Mrs. Walter N. Thayer. Good friend of the Roosevelts, Dr. Thayer is New York State Commissioner of Correction. Another guest was Geoffrey O'Hara, who owns a copyright to "The Star-Spangled Banner" by virtue of having transposed it to a lower key and who wrote the War song "K-K-K-Katy." After dinner the President listened appreciatively while Singer McGregor McKnight rendered a number with music by Composer O'Hara, lyrics by Dr. Thayer and dedicated...