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...object of the Authors' Authority is to provide an organization which can and will take the trouble to protect the writer's property, a job which the writer himself has neither the time, the ability, nor the power to do. This Authority would copyright everything an author wrote and hold it in the author's name. The writer would sell nothing: he would lease rights--such as movie rights for only one movie, or serial rights for only one publication--but he would retain all future controls. In other words, his property would remain his own for the first time...
...Copyright 1946 by TIME...
...Copyright, 1946, Winant Productions...
...Copyright, 1939, Decca Records...
...copied from the original London edition without so much as a by-your-leave. Holt, however, immediately wrote to Hardy, explaining what he had done and promising that "you shall participate in the profits." This was high-class publishing in the 18703. Until international copyright became effective at the end of the 19th Century, publishers on both sides of the Atlantic (especially on this side) simply took whatever they liked and could lay hands on, and as a rule the author whistled for his royalties. Hardy was elaborately swindled, but Holt and Harper & Brothers, his first major U.S. publishers, treated...