Word: copyrighter
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...resolve the question of the four-bar coincidence, David's publishers sued Herman for copyright infringement, asking for all of Herman's "gains, profits and advantages," as well as damages. Dolly's Herman was indignant. "I was stunned," he says, "when this man claimed that a few notes in my song were similar to his song." Sunflower's David persisted. The case never got to court. As often happens in such situations, the litigants tried to iron things out without publicity. Nevertheless, reported Variety last week, in spite of flat denials and "no comments" from...
...moods before eventually shooting himself in 1961. In writing these reminiscences, argued "Miss Mary," Hotchner had used Papa's spoken words, which should be considered his property. But New York State Supreme Court Justice Harry Frank ruled that "spontaneous oral conversation with friends" cannot be considered subject to copyright. Random House will publish Papa Hemingway in April...
...peculiar agony that creating an opera can be. When he got the Ford Foundation's grant four years ago, he first tried a setting of DuBose Heyward's novel Mamba's Daughters, was deep into it when the project had to be scuttled be cause of copyright problems. Then he tackled an original libretto by a friend, entitled The Cave. But alas, says Rorem, "after I had finished the whole thing, nobody knew what it was all about, including...
Deep South? Hollywood? On to Colette's Cheri; more copyright problems, another misfire. Deciding that "you can't write opera unless it's you," he hit on Strindberg's play Miss Julie, whose morbid Freudian thickets "fitted me; I am fascinated with death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color...
Depths & Heights. Pop Artist Andy Warhol is the man who sells exact-to-the-copyright reproductions of Brillo boxes for $1,000, lines his studio with aluminum wrap, paints his hair silver, and devotes eight hours of "underground movies" to such hitherto unexplored subjects as the depths of man's sleep or the height of the Empire State Building. Edie Sedgwick is his constant companion, an electric elf whose flashing chocolate-colored eyes and skittish psyche make her a perfect star for his slow-moving movies...