Word: copyrights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single creation win both a copyright and a design patent? A copyright protects a work for as much as 56 years; a design patent lasts for 14 years but protects the creation even when another innocently comes up with the same idea. Generally, copyrights are for the protection of authors, while patents are for inventors. Still, said the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, there can be an overlap; and in such cases, the author-inventor may ask for both forms of protection. The new winner in this fledgling category is Richard Q. Yardley, who created the Spiro Agnew...
...letter to the Senate Subcommittee on Copyrights, Townsend Hoopes said the plan, which entails cutting back on purchases of publications and photocopying and distributing materials, was "ignoring the rights of copyright owners...
...said the Senate is revising and updating the copyright laws to clarify them, but even under the present 1909 laws, photocopying and distributing previously published material is "a violation of the law and subject to suit by publishers...
Hoopes said he feels violators of the copyright laws are not prosecuted often enough. He said if the RLG begins copying publications and distributing them among the libraries he "will be surprised if a number of suits were not brought against the libraries...
Martin said he realizes that copying already-published materials in a very sensitive issue for the publishers but "regardless of what we decide, it will be well within the copyright laws...