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...forestalled by protective legislation, bombs to be fought with bombast, Valenti often couldn't see past his and his employers' fears. In 1974 he warned that the infant cable industry would become "a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair." Today, cable earns billions for the studios, as both a second home for feature films and gold-mine subsidiaries in studio-owned channels like MTV, HBO and Comedy Central...
...Dale P. Flecker, associate librarian for systems and planning in the University Library (HUL). The Google Books Library Project scans books from many major libraries and makes them freely available online. Since 2004, Google has been scanning books from Harvard’s libraries that are no longer under copyright protection. According to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who is director of the University Library, the eventual goal is to digitize all of Harvard’s out-of-copyright books, which will eventually encompass more than a million books. Before Friday, when the links began...
...held rehearsal was a random little room in Lowell. The biggest thing is that we need dance space. We also practiced in renovated squash courts; we couldn’t find the light so we rehearsed in the dark for 15 minutes. There was also the problem of strict copyright laws. Quinn: We have taken special measures to acquire rights to Sally’s big numbers. Emerson [College] actually did a production in the fall, and they couldn’t perform those songs, so we requested rights to them. Luckily for the audience, the duo?...
...rhetorical fit Monday when first hearing the news of the U.S. intention, on behalf of the American music and film industries, to bring a case to the WTO. "Many countries are facing the same challenges in their anti-piracy campaigns," said Chen Zhaokuan, deputy director of China's Copyright Society. "For China, we are a latecomer in this area, and it's natural that the sense of copyright protection among the Chinese people is not that strong. Considering how much work we have done to promote the copyrights protection and to fight against piracy in the past 10 years...
...tuning in” online—perhaps it’s niche music communities, perhaps more listener control—has made it an island of success in the otherwise tempest-tossed contemporary broadcasting industry.But stormy skies threaten the future of webcasting.Recent legislation aimed at correcting the copyright errors of the past and preventing the copyright infringements of the future is jeopardizing the ability of internet-only radio stations and smaller terrestrial stations (such as college and high school stations) to continue with their online programming.The prohibitive costs of the legislation, coupled with difficult logging and tracking procedures...