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...recoup his investment and time, Gilbert has proposed a novel way to sell scientific work which has important ramifications for university research; he believes he has the legal right to copyright his discoveries and sell them. Much like Dow Jones sells its stock quoting service to stockbrokers, Gilbert would place his genetic map in a large computer database and charge pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies an access...
Critics say that Gilbert's copyright ideas could transform campus-based research by increasing the profit motive for professors. The free exchange of information would be restricted as scholars worry about protecting their discoveries from competitors. And connections between professors and the companies that develop their finds would tighten the ties between universities and industries, which critics fear will threaten academic freedom...
...Feelings for the first time in 1977, he could not believe his ears. Reason: the song was indistinguishable from one he had written 21 years earlier called Pour Toi. Once Gaste discovered that Feelings had made a fortune for its composer, Brazilian Morris Albert, he decided to sue for copyright infringement. Albert maintains that he had never heard Pour Toi before writing Feelings. A federal district court last week ruled for Gaste, awarding him 88% of all royalties earned since 1983, or $501,000. Said a jubilant Gaste: "I want to thank American justice for giving me my baby back...
...youthful president won a royal Charter from King Charles II that formally instituted a Corporation, comprised of a president, treasurer or bursar, and five fellows of the University whose orders were subject to "allowance" by the overseers. The seven remain the technical owners of Harvard. Hence the enigmatic "Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College" that appears on virtually everything from course catalogs to a recent VES documentary called "Scruffy...
...more likely to be invited to many of the more festive occasions of the well-to-do--that is, our unlimited ability to be confused. Humanity's inherent confusion sparks the randomness of thought that is necessary to advance society. Random thoughts breed invention, and inventions--if the copyright is secured--often lead to joyous quantities of nice crisp money...