Word: copyrighter
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...their services, the syndicates demand a high price: 50% of the strip's sales and usually a copyright, so that if the creator quits or dies, another cartoonist can be hired to carry on the work. On top of that, the syndicates exercise a censorship that is breathtaking. When Dale Messick included a Negro girl among a group of teenagers in Brenda Starr, the syndicate rubbed her out for fear of offending Southern readers. When Milt Caniff used the Air Force slang word abort (to cancel) in Steve Canyon, the syndicate figured it came too close to abortion...
...speech on trade with the Communists, Rockefeller advocated increasing U.S. economic ties with Russia, providing that Russia pays her $7 to $9 million Lend Lease debt to the United States, that she provides adequate patent protection or copyright laws, and that the international climate improves...
...Angeles Composer Mack David says Dolly is his and Herman is a pirate. Dolly, he charges, is really the Sunflower song, which he wrote in 1948, and his publisher is ready to sue Herman for copyright infringement. The beginning of the refrain, "Hello, Dolly, well, hello, Dolly, it's so . . ." is identical, says the publisher, with "She's a sunflower, she's my sunflower." Herman concedes this, but points out that after the first notes "the songs take off in different directions." Whether she's Herman's Dolly or David's Sunflower...
...Copyright 1964 by the Dodge Chemical Company, Boston, Mass
Courts have held that a parodist is infringing on a copyright if he carries the borrowing to excess, but Mad's barely recognizable parodies of the song lyrics, said Kaufman, fell within the traditional "fair use" rule. It could hardly be considered unfair that the Mad versions were cast in the same meter as the original lyrics: "We doubt that even so eminent a composer as Irving Berlin should be permitted to claim a property interest in iambic pentameter...