Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody had any copyright on the idea, and Martin Block went to Manhattan's WNEW with it, at $20 a week. Along came the Hauptmann trial, and Block's big chance. His assignment was to fill in between bulletins from the courtroom. He bought a couple of records, treated himself (for $10) to a tryout sponsor, an unheralded reducing pill at $1 a box. "Now I'm not saying that your husband doesn't love you," he soft-soaped, "but when you look into the mirror, are you being fair to him?" Next morning...
...Copyright, 1939, by Remick Music Corp. Used by permission...
Until last March, U. S. readers had never seen an unexpurgated, full-length translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Then, simultaneously, two U. S. editions appeared. Publishers Houghton Mifflin,* who owned the copyright, sued Stackpole Sons for piracy. Stackpole refused to haul down their jolly roger. Said they: Hitler's copyright was illegal. Besides, said Stackpole, no royalties from their edition would go to Author Hitler. After preliminary legal skirmishes, a District Court last summer granted a temporary injunction, restraining Stackpole from selling their edition...
Stackpole took the case to the Supreme Court, last fortnight lost their appeal when the Court declined to review a Circuit Court decision authorizing the temporary injunction. U. S. as well as refugee writers hailed the decision as a big victory for honest dealing in international copyright. As soon as the suits for permanent injunction and damages are settled finally, Hitler will get his U. S. royalties. Sales to date (Reynal & Hitchcock edition...
...FOOTNOTE * By permission of the copyright owners, Chappell...