Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look is merely superficial. Inside the jazzy jackets, the little books toe a firm fundamentalist line going straight back to fiery Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who founded the press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample...
...when the Philharmonic-Symphony wants to play a Soviet work, it usually rents the score and parts from Leeds; if anybody wants to make a new record of the popular Sabre Dance from Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet, he had better see Leeds; the publisher won a lawsuit over copyright...
Since Russia has never signed an international copyright agreement, anybody who has a Russian score can legally play it or record it without paying royalties. But Leeds thought it saw a way to plug that leak in the commercial dikes. It sent a man to Moscow and obtained an "exclusive" contract to import Russian master tape recordings. Now, says the publisher, any unauthorized record release in this country will be a violation of its property rights. A fortnight ago, Leeds sent stern notes to U.S. record manufacturers: before releasing Soviet performances, they would have to sign...
...Copyright 1952 by TIME...
Aware of the hole in copyright laws, Columbia based its suit on "invasion of property rights," and Armstrong based his on an "invasion of privacy" (i.e., using his name without permission...