Word: copyrights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, Williams and Wilkins Co. v. the United States, involves the "fair use" doctrine of copyright law. Fair use suspends the payment of royalties and permission fees in certain situations where copyrighted material is used. The original purpose of the doctrine was to assist individual scholars in their research...
...understandable that Liberman did not attract much attention in the '50s. What seems incomprehensible is the way his work was publicly ignored while being covertly raided by other artists in the '60s. Though nobody holds the copyright on circles, Liberman's use of them predicted the target motifs of 1960s color-field painting...
...library group had been criticized in the press and in public statements by publishing organizations for its plans to photocopy materials instead of purchase duplicate copies. In addition, the Association of American Publishers charged in April that the consortium's proposal violates copyright laws...
Publishers are responsible for paying royalties to copyright holders. However, the consortium insists that it will continue to inject the same amount of money into the publishing industry, while spending its own money more efficiently...
...cancer; in Manhattan. Already famed as a cantor, Secunda at the age of eight emigrated to the U.S. from Russia, later graduated from Juilliard. In 1932 he whipped up Bel Mir Bistu Schein while sitting on a New York boardwalk, but together with Lyricist Jacob Jacobs sold the copyright five years later for $30. Soon picked up by a then obscure trio called the Andrews Sisters, the tune went on to gross $3 million by 1961, when the rights reverted to the authors. In the meantime Secunda had won distinction as an orchestra leader and a composer of Jewish liturgical...