Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted. In 1972 alone they published 8,100,000 copies of books by Americans without gaining their authors' consent and without paying royalties. Western governments, publishers and authors have long pleaded with Moscow to change its ways. Last week the U.S.S.R. suddenly announced that it accepts the Universal Copyright Convention. Although royalty payments will not be retroactive, the Soviets are now committed to enter into financial contracts with foreign publishers, just like the 62 other adherents (including the U.S.) to the UNESCO-sponsored convention...
...translates far more foreign books, mainly scientific, than the West gets from Russia, the Soviets stand to lose millions of dollars in hard currencies. Like the agreement to pay some old Lend-Lease bills, however, it is part of a general normalization of East-West relations. Beyond that, the copyright decision has political consequences as well. In Moscow last week a Communist Party official said bluntly that "the copyright law will prevent writers from smuggling out their work for publication abroad." As an example, she cited Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose last three banned novels have been bestsellers in the West...
...loving it and hating it, a strong and peculiar relationship to the heartland pervades his book. Picking the hardcover up from the shelf--stark black lettering looming, out from a staring white with the braille letter punched neatly underneath, you can leaf through and get a quick sense. The copyright page announces that the novel is "translated from the braille by David Rhodes," although Rhodes is not blind. The inside leaf is bereft of the usual publicity hoo-hah hinting at a lurid plot: someone saw fit to give nothing but an extended quotation from the text. The book introduces...
...Solzhenitsyn, "an incredible human being, one of the moral giants." Then came two Pulitzer-prizewinning novelists, Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) and Bernard Maiamud (The Fixer), who also announced that they wanted their Russian royalties paid to Solzhenitsyn. But the Soviets do not have any copyright treaties with the West, and they deny any obligation to pay royalties to Americans. Besides, said one top official, Solzhenitsyn doesn't need any help because he is "well off." Actually the Russians allow the novelist to get a trickle of money from Switzerland (taxed...
...generally followed by other nations-that computer programming is "essentially a series of mathematical calculations or mental steps" and thus does not fall into any patentable category. If computer programs-the so-called software-are to secure more extensive protection by the law than is provided by a simple copyright, said the court, Congress will have to enact legislation...