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Finalsclub.org is facing heavy opposition from the University, starting with legal concerns. Harvard’s general counsel writes in an email to a professor, “Under the federal Copyright Act of 1976, a lecture is automatically copyrighted as long as the professor prepared some tangible expression of the content—notes, an outline, a script, a video or audio recording...
...Hefner considered Playboy (which would have been called Stag Party if not for a copyright snafu) a liberating force for both sexes. But naturally, some women questioned whether swapping aprons for lingerie constituted a net gain. After some 300 protestors organized by a Chicago women's group picketed the Playboy mansion in 1970, a female secretary leaked to the press a memo that underscored Hef's antipathy toward "militant feminists": "What I'm interested in is the highly irrational, emotional, kookie [sic] trend that feminism has taken...these chicks are our natural enemy. It is time to do battle with...
...shows, The Golden Girls and Dynasty. In the '90s, however, Casadei--along with others in the industry--took a different tack. She began re-creating dresses worn by celebrities at awards shows and selling them at marked-down prices, starting a furor in the high-end fashion world over copyright law. Still, her work continued to gain a following for its affordability and style...
...MPAA send Batman and Spidey to Hong Kong to fight copyright infringement? DRG: We’ve used Jackie Chan quite a bit in Hong Kong. I don’t know if Batman and Spiderman can do in reality what they can do on the screen, though...
...FactCheck.org debunked the McCain campaign's use of FactCheck.org. Do your reports get twisted and used unfairly? This was a clear violation of our copyright policy, which basically says please steal our stuff, just don't distort it and they distorted it. We have absolutely no objection to a candidate accurately quoting us. But we really have to push back hard when people distort what we say because our credibility is at stake. In this case, they knew perfectly well they were misrepresenting what we said. It was really outrageous and we kind of went off on them I guess...