Word: copyrighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American officials view China's six-month-old copyright law as weak and have been pushing for tougher compliance in talks that went nowhere. With Congress apparently bent on enacting its own restrictions, the Administration will now move to recoup losses from Beijing's intellectual poaching by imposing tariffs on such Chinese goods as beer, watches and athletic shoes...
...Fifteen years ago, Leigh's biographer Anne Edwards wrote Tara: The Continuation of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. It was to be the basis for a joint film venture by Universal Pictures and MGM. When the deal soured, Edwards was left with an unpublishable manuscript, since its copyright was linked to the release of the film...
Once again publicity foreplay is more exciting than what goes on between the covers. The managed anticipation that preceded Scarlett's publication was enlivened by the intricacies of copyright law and the persistent, though unconfirmed, rumor that Sidney Sheldon had been a candidate before the Mitchell estate settled on Ripley, 57, a native of Charleston, S.C., and author of three solid historical romances. There was also the confirmed rumor that Ripley threatened to quit when told by her editor that the first draft of Scarlett was not commercial enough. Finally, there was the author's disarming candor. "Margaret Mitchell...
...even bribing studio executives. Once the pirates have their booty, they pay legitimate CD manufacturers to produce discs from the master tapes, which are often labeled with a bogus name to escape detection. Most bootleg CDs are made in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe, where lax regulation and sketchy copyright laws make enforcement difficult. The illicit CDs are then smuggled into the U.S., where they are sold for prices ranging from...
...Copyright laws also carry more weight. The U.S. in 1988 became party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, which allows a U.S. copyright holder to enter the court system of other nations subject to the convention to seek restitution for infringement. The treaty strengthened copyright protections, although the U.S. did not sign on to controversial provisions concerning "moral rights," which allow artists and authors to maintain control over revision of their works...