Word: copyrighter
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When Baltimore artist James Earl Reid created a life-size statue of a homeless family, he intended it for an event called the Pageant of Peace. Instead of bringing peace, however, the sculpture has sparked a bitter legal battle over the nation's copyright laws...
...Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) commissioned Reid to craft the sculpture. The CCNV, an advocacy group for the homeless, agreed to pay $15,000 for materials and other costs, and Reid agreed to donate his services. But after the statue was completed, the two sides started sparring over the copyright -- specifically, who would profit from using the sculpture's image on cards and calendars...
...claims that Reid was merely carrying out his instructions. Counters Reid: "Whatever ingredients were involved in that work were synthesized through me." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sent the case last May to a lower court to consider whether the parties jointly owned the copyright. Snyder appealed, and the case will be heard by the Supreme Court in March...
...dispute between IBM and Fujitsu, the most powerful Japanese firm in the mainframe-computer market, has been one of the biggest copyright battles ever. Last week arbitrators disclosed a settlement in the case, which began in 1982 when IBM accused Fujitsu of illegally copying Big Blue operating-system software to use in the Japanese manufacturer's IBM-compatible machines. Based on a secret accord reached a year ago, Fujitsu is paying IBM $833 million for use of the software. Until 1997, Fujitsu will also pay an annual fee that may reach $51 million next year...
...Engel said that Frazier made only minor errors when making use of his article in a published work. "I would not regard it as plagiarism in my instance beyond a very limited copyright sense," Engel said...