Word: copyright
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...looks legit even if its legal status is questionable. The site accepts Visa and Mastercard, and a Dutch firm, ChronoPay, processes credit card transactions. The site declares that it is authorized to sell downloads by an organization called the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS) and FAIR, another copyright licensing agency. Read the fine print and you'll see that Mediaservices claims it pays "license fees" for material downloaded from the site...
...says the Recording Industry Association of America and its international affiliate, the IFPI, which insist that Western record labels haven't received a dime in license fees. Nor have those copyright protectors authorized ROMS or FAIR to collect payments. The Russians "set up this bogus licensing scheme," says Lauri Rechardt, litigation director for the IFPI, "and quite clearly it's not a problem for the authorities." Counters ROMS general manager Oleg Nezus: "Foreign organizations that lay claims about pirate use...are either adventurists or idiots." (E-mails to Mediaservices were not returned...
...launched “Google Print,” an initiative to digitize and make available online the vast holdings of the libraries of several major public and university libraries, including Harvard. Nevertheless, some publishers protested Google’s decision to digitize print works on the grounds of copyright infringement. Google, for its part, allowed publishers to instruct it which books not to scan at all. While we understand the concerns of the publishers, copyright laws are not meant as a means to keep information protected, but rather as a way to disseminate it justly, keeping in mind...
...Randall writes in the novel. “Sometimes I comb through my long springy curls and pretend that the hand holding the comb is hers. But I don’t know what that looks like.”But the hands holding the copyright to “Gone With the Wind”—Mitchell’s heirs—thought Randall’s parody looked too much like the original.The Mitchell estate sued to block its publication. Novelists Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, and Toni Morrison, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger...
...Copyright 2006 by John Updike. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher