Word: copyrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations, is now chief almoner to the House of Rockefeller. Died. Albert Henry Vestal, 57, U. S. Representative from the 8th Indiana District since 1917, Republican Whip of the House; of heart disease; in Washington. Congressman Sirovich's predecessor as chairman of the Committee on Patents & Copyrights, he long sought copyright protection for artists, writers, composers. Last year he saw his bill, providing copyright automatically upon creation, die in the Senate because of the one-man filibuster of Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas on another issue. Runner-up for the 1930 title of "Champion Horseshoe Pitcher...
Many people suffering from paranoia, and foolish delusions of persecution frequently appeal to the students. Women appear who think they have a claim against every one. When the claim against every one. When the Bureau found no merit in the case of a woman sueding for an infringement of copyright, the woman tried to sue the Bureau for stealing a poem of her's entitled "Come, Across, Come, Come." Another case of a clergyman who imagined he had been imprisoned in an asylum because he was going to write a book condemning a higher ecclesiastic also reached the Bureau...
...accurately described in print, unless some of the things he does, the expressions that he uses, are outlined. . . . There are five people (over 21) besides myself, who read my copy of TIME, and they all agree that TIME is "a - - wow"- (not used with the permission of the copyright owners). Louis NELSON...
...platitudinous to say that the lot of a young author is a hard one. But much of its difficulty springs from legal complications which ought to be abolished. Unscrupulous publishers, as a member of the League observed, can use the copyright for purely personal gain, since redress is ordinarily too expensive for the beginning author. Moreover, the development of the films has greatly enlarged the market for certain kinds of literature. The helplessness of the author, who has little or no control over his work after it is written, is correspondingly increased...
...argument that the copyright should afford as much protection to the writer as the patent does to the inventor, is too cogent to be disregarded. The time has passed when international piracy was an unrebuked occurrence in the publishing world. Today, objections to so simple and natural a change are seldom from disinterested sources. Protection of his rights is a duty which society owes to the writer...