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...Copyright 1952 by TIME...
That was the way Glow-Worm used to go-sentimentally enough to sell 4,000,000 copies of the sheet music alone since its publication in 1902.* But the copyright on the old Paul Lincke song runs out soon; performers then will be able to sing it, if they feel like it, without paying royalties to Manhattan's Edward B. Marks Music Corp. This summer, in an imaginative bid to keep ahead of the market, Marks got Johnny Mercer to write new lyrics, copyrighted the modernized version...
...look is merely superficial. Inside the jazzy jackets, the little books toe a firm fundamentalist line going straight back to fiery Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who founded the press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample...
...when the Philharmonic-Symphony wants to play a Soviet work, it usually rents the score and parts from Leeds; if anybody wants to make a new record of the popular Sabre Dance from Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet, he had better see Leeds; the publisher won a lawsuit over copyright...
Since Russia has never signed an international copyright agreement, anybody who has a Russian score can legally play it or record it without paying royalties. But Leeds thought it saw a way to plug that leak in the commercial dikes. It sent a man to Moscow and obtained an "exclusive" contract to import Russian master tape recordings. Now, says the publisher, any unauthorized record release in this country will be a violation of its property rights. A fortnight ago, Leeds sent stern notes to U.S. record manufacturers: before releasing Soviet performances, they would have to sign...