Word: copyright
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...better legal representation, would James Joyce’s Ulysses have ever been published? Intertextuality isn’t just a word that literature majors throw around at their swank cocktail parties—it’s a fundamental attribute of creative expression.Even in an age when copyright terms have been extended to absurd lengths in order to keep Mickey Mouse locked up and proprietary, there is a viable movement of people who question the balkanization of artistic expression. Lawrence Lessig and his “Free Culture” peers (including Cory Doctorow, interviewed in the Crimson earlier...
WOLFMOTHER DIMENSION There's a 2006 copyright on the back, but you can be forgiven for thinking this Aussie trio's debut is a misplaced artifact from an early Led Zeppelin session. Not only are the members of Wolfmother blissfully unaware that some people now find the monster guitar solo pass, but they also write Wiccan-ish songs with titles like Joker & the Thief, Witchcraft and White Unicorn ("With the white unicorn across her shoulder/ Makes you think that she might have been someone who's older") that are no less fun for being totally incomprehensible. What raises their unironic...
Viswanathan shares the copyright for Opal with Alloy Entertainment, a book packager, which develops book ideas, hires writers, then delivers a finished product to publishers. Packagers have been more common in nonfiction--cookbooks, joke books--but Alloy has turned itself into a giant of young-women's fiction. Headed by Leslie Morgenstein, 39, Alloy has put together hit series, including The Clique and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It's a "fiction factory," as a publishing insider calls it, but one with a well-respected sense of the mercurial girl culture; Alloy's parent company also owns the teen...
...live in an age in which the free flow of ideas and information is constantly being restricted: Copyrights are longer than ever and entertainment industry lobbyists are attempting to make even attempted copyright violation a crime with a potential 10-year sentence. Our God-given right as readers to as many magnet-school satires as the market will bear is under assault. I vote with whoever first said that good artists borrow and great artists steal...
...book deal was less than the previously publicized amount of $500,000—though he did not specify how much the young author received. He also said that the advance was split between Viswanathan and Alloy Entertainment, a book packaging firm that shares the book’s copyright and that helped her “conceptualize and plot the book,” according to Alloy President Leslie Morgenstein...