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...them precisely." With the help of industrial designer Ethan Imboden, Carluccio created TTM version 1.1, a pamphlet-size guide (available free at www.battlesounds.com that explains the system in simple terms. Now aspiring DJs can actually see the music, making it easier to learn, and top artists can publish and copyright their compositions. "Putting it on paper doesn't necessarily make the music any better," says Carluccio, "but it helps get more people exposed to it, and that elevates the level...
Thank the gods that copyright law was not discovered in the Iron Age. If it had been, and if Homer had been succeeded by some litigious heirs, the vast trove of Western literature derived or extrapolated from the Iliad and Odyssey--including Vergil's Aeneid, Dante's Inferno, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Tennyson's Ulysses, Joyce's Ulysses--might not exist. And what damages would today's judges award Christopher Marlowe? He wrote a wildly popular poem called The Passionate Shepherd to His Love that was answered, in identical verse form, by Sir Walter...
...Pannell Jr., a U.S. District Court judge in Atlanta, when he issued an injunction barring the scheduled June publication of a novel by Alice Randall called The Wind Done Gone. The ruling was a victory for the Margaret Mitchell estate, which claimed that Randall's novel infringes on the copyright of Gone With the Wind...
BLOCKED. Publication of The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation of Gone With the Wind told from the point of view of a slave; in Atlanta. A federal judge rejected author Alice Randall's argument that her novel was a parody, instead saying it infringed on the copyright of the original novel written by Margaret Mitchell, whose estate had sued in June to stop its publication...
MARGARET MITCHELL Tara saved! Federal judge says novel retelling GWTW from slave's p.o.v. violates copyright...