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...letter to the Senate Subcommittee on Copyrights, Townsend Hoopes said the plan, which entails cutting back on purchases of publications and photocopying and distributing materials, was "ignoring the rights of copyright owners...
...said the Senate is revising and updating the copyright laws to clarify them, but even under the present 1909 laws, photocopying and distributing previously published material is "a violation of the law and subject to suit by publishers...
Hoopes said he feels violators of the copyright laws are not prosecuted often enough. He said if the RLG begins copying publications and distributing them among the libraries he "will be surprised if a number of suits were not brought against the libraries...
...Grande de Coca-Cola's original title was El Coca-Cola Grande. Coca-Cola threatened to sue for copyright infringement, so they changed the title. It shows you how reasonable even the largest corporations can be. The show is a pidgin-Spanish parody of a tenth-rate nightclub act, and it got rave reviews, although all my friends who've seen it say it's terrible. Opens tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Cabaret at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...
...responded with a $30 million damage suit against Lampoon, charging violations of trademark and copyright laws and defamation. Last week Lampoon agreed to withdraw all unsold copies of the magazine by Nov. 15 (450,000 were printed), to destroy the plate of the ad, and to run Volkswagen's statement on the incident in the magazine's January issue. It seemed only fitting that the Lampoon, which has thrived on necrological humor, would at last find itself forced to kill one of its own items...