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...attorney for Acuff-Rose Music, the company which owns the rights to the song, argued that copyright owners should be allowed to ban such parodies of their compositions. The rap version only seeks to cash in on the enduring popularity of the 1964 hit, attorney Sidney S. Rosdeitcher said earlier this week...
Initially, their conversations seemed futile because each could only tell the other how wrong their views were. However once they each conceded that neither had the copyright on truth, their talks actually became very concrete discussions on what can be done about racism in America...
Price said the company handles possible copyright violations by getting copyright clearance through the state agency in Salem and by charging customers copyright fees...
...name Nintendo means "leave luck to heaven," but Sheff shows that the company's leaders have made their own luck, through hard work and foresight, while fighting off rival gamemakers such as Sega. When MCA Universal charged that the game Donkey Kong infringed on the copyright to the movie King Kong, Nintendo stubbornly refused to settle, and eventually MCA had to pay Nintendo a $1.8 million penalty. Nintendo chief Hiroshi Yamauchi also wisely built expansion capabilities in his entertainment systems, allowing an innocuous video-game system to perhaps become the home-communications network of the future. Writes Sheff: "Nintendo...
...million IBM-compatible personal computers, or 75% of all the PCs in the world. Competitors claim Microsoft abuses its market power, but the company was cleared of all antitrust charges in a Federal Trade Commission probe in February. Last week a federal judge dismissed Apple's $5.5 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft as well...