Word: copyrighted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...encourage more imports of electronics products, copyright protection will be granted on computer programs and semiconductor chips. In the past, American companies have complained that Japanese manufacturers have been able to copy freely foreign programs and chips...
Three of these stories first appeared in Playboy and two others ran in Esquire; the remainder made their debuts in quarterlies or little magazines. That parlay of the slick and scholarly is unusual, particularly for a beginning writer. Odder still, only a peek at the copyright page can confirm just which stories reached the mass or middling audiences; Easy in the Islands is a whole unified by consistent parts. Shacochis, 33, grew up in Virginia and earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in English at the University of Missouri, where he now serves as a visiting writer...
Although we do not recognize such inalienable rights of the author, our copyright law is not insensitive to this idea, i.e. we tie copyright protection to the lifetime of the author, not just a time period necessary for cost recovery plus "profit". We recognize that Endgame is a product of Beckett's imagination and that he has some right to keep it as he imagined it. Yes, Beckett is stymieing the creative impulse of the artists at the ART, but he did not ask them to produce Endgame and they would be more stymied if he never wrote the play...
This is precisely where a freedom of speech argument defending this production derails. Play rights are like inventors of technical improvements in communication: each give us new "media" of expression, new ways people can communicate. The Constitution provides for patents and copyrights Granting these protections for a limited number of years just push back the arrival, the "gift" of the new "medium of expression." It does not stymie existing freedom of expression Unlike patent, copyright protects freedom of expression by making sure remains your expression...
From what we know of Beckett's in this dispute, he would have more happily permitted an adaptation: a play inspired penned, by Beckett (This too copyright owner's permission)Billing this production as an adaptation would have been more honest because it would have recognized the tremendous creative input i.e, changed made...