Word: copyrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steps, a Utopian fantasy of what the world might be like if people lived literally according to Christ's teachings (TIME, Oct. 9). Published in 1899, it has sold 8,000,000* copies, four times as many as its nearest competitor. Because of a flaw in the copyright, Author Sheldon received no royalties from his book. Compiler Weeks lists 65 titles. The first 19, after In His Steps...
...written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star. His adaptation of Arrowsmith won the Cinema Academy prize in 1932. His script of his favorite novel, The Brothers Karamazov (which was never produced because Producer Goldwyn lost a copyright battle with UFA), was considered even better...
...Freundlich Inc. for infringing their copyright by manufacturing Betty Boop dolls. The case came before famed Judge John M. Woolsey, in the same handsomely appointed Bar Association Building court room where two months ago he handed down his historic decision on Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Dec. 18). After examining a Betty Boop doll and specimens of the real Betty Boop, Judge Woolsey ordered Ralph A. Freundlich Inc. to stop making the dolls, ordered an accounting of their profits. Like his famed decision in the case of the U. S. v. Ulysses, Judge Woolsey 's opinion was accompanied...
...Charles Dickens would have received no such handsome price for it. For his first story, published in 1833, he got nothing. For Pickwick Papers, he got ?15 an installment. His last book, Edwin Drood, brought the highest price Dickens ever received from a publisher: ?7,500 for the copyright, ?1,000 for the U. S. rights. A Christmas Carol was a financial disappointment. After two years, only two editions had been sold and the book had earned only ?726, or 11? a word. At $210,000, the 14,000 words of The Life of Our Lord are worth $15 each...
...Wagner Protective Law also prohibits the performance of Parsifal in all German theatres outside Bayreuth. For 21 years Wagner's family succeeded in keeping the great religious music-drama sacred to the Festivals. In 1903 the Metropolitan Opera Company first gave it. In 1912 the copyright lapsed in Germany. Bayreuth is now run by Frau Winifred Wagner, the late great Richard's daughter-in-law to whom Hitler has often been rumored engaged...