Word: copyrighted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unable to afford, on a stipend from her tribe, the costly legal counsel of technology experts who might have buttressed her assertion that she was innocent of the RIAA’s accusations. Of course the association’s lawyers have every right to prosecute on copyright law, but their insistence on heavy-handed punishment of Ms. Thomas verges on the absurd; it seems entirely disproportionate to the purported crime. But even as the darkness of court cases looms in the minds of college students across the country, day may be breaking overseas, as the British band called Radiohead...
...impressive, engaging companion catalogue don’t provide any easy answers. And with good reason: there aren’t any.Instead, the exhibition presents the evidence for both sides of the debate clearly and cogently.Making sense of a complex tangle of mathematical fractals and the chemical structure and copyright of pigments and paints, the essays in the catalogue lay out the discussions in something approaching layman’s terms, outlining the research and analysis behind the intrigue.DRAMATIS PERSONAEThe exhibition is separated into two sections. In the upper portion of the show, anecdotes, letters, and images all contribute...
...Supreme Court tells us that “[t]he sine qua non of copyright is originality.” That’s why the compilers of a white-pages telephone directory lost their claims against a competitor who copied listings. The Coop neither authored the ISBN numbers on its books nor compiled them in an original selection or arrangement. From all accounts, the professors who create course reading lists are happy for students to have them. (Professors generally welcome anything that helps students to do their course assignments...
What about the prices that the Coop set and affixed to books? Copyright doesn’t protect the “sweat of the brow” involved in compiling facts, either: “[C]opyright rewards originality, not effort.” Nor does it give monopoly control of minimally expressive statements (for example, a book’s price) that “merge” with the underlying idea (for example, its market value). A federal appeals court recently denied the New York Mercantile Exchange’s bid to protect its list of stock...
Here, at least, the copyright law follows our intuitions. Access to ideas is a high priority in a democratic society. The Constitutional authorization to “promote the progress of science,” leaves facts in the public domain, as do the statutes and cases interpreting them. Authors are given copyright incentives to induce them to share their works and the ideas in them with the public. We would expect an academic bookstore to appreciate that it too gains from authors’ free access to the facts and ideas in the world around them...