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...have to worry about paying my rent every month," explains Kitty Bruce, 20, who has filed suit against the biographers of her late father, Comedian Lenny Bruce. Claiming copyright infringement, unfair trade practice and appropriation of Bruce's name and likeness, Kitty wants $11 million from the makers of the movie Lenny and another $4 million from Authors Albert Goldman and Lawrence Schiller and the publishers of Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! Why file suit now? "So I'll be able to pay my bills for the rest of my life...
...Soviet Union is not presently bound by an international copyright treaties, a complicating factor in the library's decision...
Until now, too, the pirates have had little fear of being caught, or being penalized much if they were. The basic U.S. copyright law was drafted in 1909 to protect the printed word and was seldom enforced against electronic banditry. Federal law makes it only a misdemeanor to sell stolen films unless they are sent across state lines or abroad and the shipment is worth more than $5,000; so pirates found it profitable to keep selling pilfered films and treat as nuisance taxes the small fines that might result...
...proposed policy, drawn up last month by the University's Patent and Copyright Committee would establish a committee to decide whether to encourage students and faculty to pursue patents for their discoveries. Whitlock said...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University and chairman of the patent and copyright committee, said yesterday that the proposal will not take effect until the Corporation approves it. He did not specify when the Corporation will take action on the proposal...