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...theater group shares its office with the literary magazine, Copyright. The Poets' Theater uses center publicity facilities, including the mailing list that reaches about 2200 people. In addition, the center provides the group with telephone service, filing cabinets, a mailbox and meeting space...
...share of problems, and there are, at times, delays in getting books on reserve. However, the staff has striven for years to streamline the process and has made remarkable progress with their efforts. In addition, the reserves staff has in recent years rededicated itself to strict adherence to the copyright protection act which, admittedly, causes more paperwork and headaches, but is, after all, a legal and moral necessity...
Like the genes in a living cell, the microcodes on a computer chip carry the instructions that control the chip's functions. Manufacturers safeguard the valuable microcodes with copyrights, but their legality has been a vexing question. No longer. In a landmark ruling last week in San Jose, Federal Judge William Gray upheld a microcode copyright used by Intel Corp., the world's largest producer of microprocessors. The decision came in a dispute that began in 1984 when Japan's NEC challenged the copyright. Intel responded that NEC had illegally used the code in its own products. But while Gray...
...core of the dispute is the question of who owns the copyright to commissioned "intellectual property," be it art, writing, movies or computer software. Several federal courts of appeal have split on the issue when freelance work is involved. Since millions of dollars are potentially at stake down the line, Snyder's group has found itself allied with some major corporate interests. Supporting briefs have been filed by trade associations, whose members include I.B.M., Procter & Gamble and Dow Chemical, as well as publishing companies such as the New York Times Co., Time Inc. and the Hearst Corp. Reid has also...
...changes are due in federal criminal cases now that the Supreme Court has approved a new sentencing system. -- A statue of the homeless sparks a copyright battle...