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Press freedom outweighs an ex-President's copyright...
...leftist weekly, summarized Ford's account of his pardon of Richard Nixon, using a stolen copy of the book without Ford's permission. A U.S. district court ruled that the Nation had taken the former President's work in violation of the federal copyright laws, and directed the magazine to pay the publishers damages of $12,500; the sum represented the fee that the publishers lost when TIME, which had purchased first magazine publication rights, withdrew under a contractual provision after the Nation article appeared...
...widely followed case pitted the right to literary ownership, or copyright, against the principle of a free press. Copyright, said Kaufman, covers not "ideas or facts," but the author's "expression." In the case of highly newsworthy books, this means only "the ordering and choice of the words themselves." Otherwise, he went on, "an individual could be the owner of an important political event merely by being the first to depict that event in words." Copyright law "was not meant to obstruct the citizens' access to vital facts and historical observations about our nation's life...
Later, Oz says that "there is no copyright law for national experience, and one cannot sue that Palestinian national movement for plagiarism...
...officials here contacted yesterday said that the decision will have little effect on copying at Harvard "From what I have heard of the decision, it sounds to me that [abiding by the "fair use" copyright guidelines] is what we have been doing from the beginning," said James A Sharaf '59, assistant general counsel for the University...