Word: copyrighter
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Disney's lawyers were unamused. They filed suit in Chicago federal court against 18 defendants, including local shopkeepers and two distributors, charging copyright infringements, trade disparagement and other offenses. Mickey and the rest, said the suit, "have acquired an image of innocent delightfulness and are known and loved by people all over the world." One shopkeeper observed blandly if accurately: "There are a lot dirtier things around...
...your issue of June 28, you published an extract from the novel August 1914 with the copyright ? Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn has authorized me to protect and administer his author's rights in all countries except the U.S.S.R. I have given world translation and publication rights to Luchterhand Verlag in Neuwied, West Germany. Therefore, the copyright should have read ? Luchterhand Verlag...
...happy ending. Just how . happy, no one seems to know, least of all Author Williams. The Russians, it seems, are rewriting the play more to their hearts' desire. Williams doesn't mind the rewrite, but he regrets something else: no royalties. Russia has never signed an international copyright agreement. The resigned Tennessee says, "I understand they hold the royalties and give them to you when you go there. Then you live in high style...
...simply copied the original. According to industry estimates, bootlegging costs the recording companies, music publishers and artists as much as $100 million yearly in lost sales and royalties. Except in a few states that specifically prohibit bootlegging, the companies can do little to stamp it out. The federal copyright law does not cover sound recordings, though an amendment to close that loophole has passed the Senate and is being studied by a House subcommittee...
...defects. Other shady operators, who typically use telephone answering services and ship the goods C.O.D., put together a selection of bestselling single recordings on one tape. A few counterfeiters duplicate not only hit records and tapes, but also labels and album covers-right down to the copyright mark. Recording-industry leaders say that the low operating costs and high profit margins have attracted organized crime to tape bootlegging...