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Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet .. . Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. -Mark Twain...
Perhaps in fear of Twain's acerbic observation, none of the usual Senators, Congressmen and other worthies gathered last week when President Ford quietly signed into law a broad, new and long-overdue revision of U.S. copyright legislation. So old was the last law (1909) that if it could have been copyrighted, the copyright would have been due to expire ten years ago. Despite the advent of such undreamed-of complications as TV and photocopiers, the battles over changes dragged on through 20 years. "The new law has seen righting and its body shows some scars," says John Hersey...
...maximum of 56 years after publication will now retain their rights for life plus 50 years-the most common term internationally and the one Twain fought for in his lifetime. Though the law does not go into full effect until Jan. 1, 1978, it does immediately extend current copyrights to 75 years. As a result, royalties will be paid to widows and heirs for an extra 19 years for such about-to-expire copyrights as those on Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones and W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues. Moreover...
Died. Robert L. May, 71, Midwest adman who sat down in 1939 to write Christmas promotion for Montgomery Ward & Co. and came up with the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, of cancer; in Evanston, 111. After Ward handed over the Rudolph copyright to May in 1947, he received royalties on more than 100 Red-Nosed products and on the hit song written...
...Weary Willie than as a singer. Kelly, a former star with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, says his problems were caused by Pop Tunesmith Neil Sedaka. On posters for his album Hungry Years, Sedaka appears in clown face similar to the character Kelly created in 1921 and later copyrighted. "Weary Willie is my makeup and my face. It's an infringement," complained the clown, adding he may sue both Sedaka and Rocket Records. "I can't wait 'til Neil's mother hears about that," responded Rocket Attorney Barry Tyerman. "If anybody has a copyright...