Word: copyrighter
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...loving it and hating it, a strong and peculiar relationship to the heartland pervades his book. Picking the hardcover up from the shelf--stark black lettering looming, out from a staring white with the braille letter punched neatly underneath, you can leaf through and get a quick sense. The copyright page announces that the novel is "translated from the braille by David Rhodes," although Rhodes is not blind. The inside leaf is bereft of the usual publicity hoo-hah hinting at a lurid plot: someone saw fit to give nothing but an extended quotation from the text. The book introduces...
...Solzhenitsyn, "an incredible human being, one of the moral giants." Then came two Pulitzer-prizewinning novelists, Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) and Bernard Maiamud (The Fixer), who also announced that they wanted their Russian royalties paid to Solzhenitsyn. But the Soviets do not have any copyright treaties with the West, and they deny any obligation to pay royalties to Americans. Besides, said one top official, Solzhenitsyn doesn't need any help because he is "well off." Actually the Russians allow the novelist to get a trickle of money from Switzerland (taxed...
...generally followed by other nations-that computer programming is "essentially a series of mathematical calculations or mental steps" and thus does not fall into any patentable category. If computer programs-the so-called software-are to secure more extensive protection by the law than is provided by a simple copyright, said the court, Congress will have to enact legislation...
...total was Gallery's copying of Playboy in its first issue that Hefner's lawyers started inspecting it for possible copyright infringement, and Bailey reportedly rebuked Spurlock for overdoing the imitation. Gallery's next issue is to be partly redesigned, but Fenton is unworried. "All magazines," he says blandly, "have similarities...
Beyond that, the Soviet and American legal systems differ fundamentally, so there will have to be some special arrangement to settle commercial disputes arising between U.S. companies and Soviet government organs. The Soviet Union is not yet a party to international copyright conventions, and there is no bilateral tax treaty between the two countries...