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...show's nearly 200 photographs, chosen from more than 100,000 that were deposited for copyright purposes in the Bibliothèque Nationale in the years from 1848 to 1900, reach out toward the world in familiar and often contemporary ways. They include the equivalents of snapshots and salon portraits, multiple exposures to analyze the flight of pigeons and the strides of men, romanticized landscapes and still lifes clearly derived from painting, as well as reportage on everything from war to travel and exploration, from Mont Blanc to the Crimea to the Nile. A photographic task force was even...
Condensed and adapted from the March 1979 issue of MONEY magazine by special permission copyright 1979 Time Inc. Estimates supplied by Allan Bragdon...
...minute the long-awaited FCC decision was announced, broadcast executives began protesting vigorously. A few Congressmen suggested that the action would require a revision of the copyright laws governing TV programs. Said the National Association of Broadcasters president, Vincent Wasilewski: "The FCC is permitting cable systems to use an unlimited amount of broadcast programming for token fees." Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, complained that the ruling allows cable TV to "get what it wants with no permission from the owner...
...Supreme Court has passed up one chance to consider the issue, and some experts believe only Congress can deal with it properly. U.C.L.A. Law Professor Melville Nimmer suggests patterning the right to share in the proceeds of posthumous exploitation after copyright law, with heirs entitled to royalties for 50 years, after which, for example, a bust of Beethoven would be in the public domain. But so far no one has been sufficiently exercised to propose any legislation on the issue. The constituency is, while notable, notably small...
Sharaf says in copyright law a violation largely depends on the "purpose and character of use" in copying the material...