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...reminder, however: because of thorny copyright problems, the material on The Beatles at the Beeb will probably never make it to record. This may not be an insurmountable problem in an age of technological marvels. As Bruce Springsteen used to tell listeners at home when he did his own radio shows: "Roll them tapes...
...Copyright © 1982 by Henry A. Kissinger
Companies are now trying a number of tactics to stop the pirates. Atari, the leading video-game maker and a subsidiary of Warner Communications, retains 15 lawyers to file copyright protection lawsuits to combat pirates. Last month a three-judge panel in New York upheld a ruling that videogame companies can copyright their products, including the visual and sound effects down to the last zap. Many companies have introduced special coding schemes that are designed to stop copying. The trouble is that computer specialists, who may be only in their teens, can often easily break the protective codes. Says Steven...
...article fails to mention the would-be victims of the new technology-those writers, actors, set builders and others who create motion pictures and other quality programming for television. The property rights of these artists are ignored every time someone tapes a program without compensation to the copyright owner. Unless Congress comes up with an equitable formula for protecting copyright owners whose programs get taped, much of their work may disappear from the free TV market altogether...
...Tweedy Gabe Hammerschlag, head of N.Y.P.D.'s Confidence Detail, struck a match on his desk top and, sucking the flame into the bowl of his pipe, eyed me meditatively. Gabe and I had known each other ever since 1953, when I had helped him straighten out a rather nasty copyright mess among the Kachins of Northern Burma, and I knew that when Hammerschlag sucked flame meditatively into his bowl the unexpected could be expected...