Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Robert L. May, 71, Midwest adman who sat down in 1939 to write Christmas promotion for Montgomery Ward & Co. and came up with the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, of cancer; in Evanston, 111. After Ward handed over the Rudolph copyright to May in 1947, he received royalties on more than 100 Red-Nosed products and on the hit song written...
...coming months as millions of Americans switch TV dials from Sonny and Cher to Sonja and Harald and Liz and Phil spectaculars. The royals have always been polished performers. They have, after all, been in the magic business for a long, long time, and their claim to the copyright on Camelot is, in many ways, as enduring as it ever was. Democracies have long since learned they can live comfortably either with them or without them. But the mystique of nationhood is as elusive of definition as ever, and wherever Kings and Queens still hold scepter, if not sway, they...
...Weary Willie than as a singer. Kelly, a former star with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, says his problems were caused by Pop Tunesmith Neil Sedaka. On posters for his album Hungry Years, Sedaka appears in clown face similar to the character Kelly created in 1921 and later copyrighted. "Weary Willie is my makeup and my face. It's an infringement," complained the clown, adding he may sue both Sedaka and Rocket Records. "I can't wait 'til Neil's mother hears about that," responded Rocket Attorney Barry Tyerman. "If anybody has a copyright...
...powerful five-member Board of Directors, he added, avoids urgent matters. Even so, he said, the directors are paid $54,000 a year-appreciably more than the top executives of larger church groups-and are able to bump their average incomes up to $100,000 a year with copyright and other income as trustees for the estate of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, as well as various additional fees...
News Service for instance, a petroleum industry newsletter that costs $435 a year, is available for pennies a copy to anyone with a Xerox machine and a borrowed original. After years of controversy, the Senate last week passed a revision of the copyright law that would prohibit photocopying of more than a small excerpt from copyrighted material. The bill is now bogged down in the House. Says Marshall McLuhan: "Whereas Caxton and Gutenberg enabled all men to become readers, Xerox has enabled all men to become publishers...