Word: copyrighter
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...library group had been criticized in the press and in public statements by publishing organizations for its plans to photocopy materials instead of purchase duplicate copies. In addition, the Association of American Publishers charged in April that the consortium's proposal violates copyright laws...
Publishers are responsible for paying royalties to copyright holders. However, the consortium insists that it will continue to inject the same amount of money into the publishing industry, while spending its own money more efficiently...
...cancer; in Manhattan. Already famed as a cantor, Secunda at the age of eight emigrated to the U.S. from Russia, later graduated from Juilliard. In 1932 he whipped up Bel Mir Bistu Schein while sitting on a New York boardwalk, but together with Lyricist Jacob Jacobs sold the copyright five years later for $30. Soon picked up by a then obscure trio called the Andrews Sisters, the tune went on to gross $3 million by 1961, when the rights reverted to the authors. In the meantime Secunda had won distinction as an orchestra leader and a composer of Jewish liturgical...
...single creation win both a copyright and a design patent? A copyright protects a work for as much as 56 years; a design patent lasts for 14 years but protects the creation even when another innocently comes up with the same idea. Generally, copyrights are for the protection of authors, while patents are for inventors. Still, said the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, there can be an overlap; and in such cases, the author-inventor may ask for both forms of protection. The new winner in this fledgling category is Richard Q. Yardley, who created the Spiro Agnew...
Martin said he realizes that copying already-published materials in a very sensitive issue for the publishers but "regardless of what we decide, it will be well within the copyright laws...