Word: copyrights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camp's victims; Gunther Len Schonfeld, head of Stern's news department, told TIME that the generous-seeming gesture was "a show of hypocrisy." Privately, some editors at Bunte accused Stern of having stolen its cache of Mengele materials. Journalists at Stern complained that Bunte had violated copyright laws by running pictures owned by the Bosserts...
...Gerald Ford's memoirs, A Time to Heal. But the majority opinion, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was so narrowly drawn that even many of those who had sided with the Nation were not seriously upset. "There is always a natural tension between the First Amendment and copyright law," said Bruce Sanford, general counsel for the Society of Professional Journalists, "and this does not alter the balance very much...
...featured the ex- President's defense of his pardon of Richard Nixon, and Nation Editor Victor Navasky argued that Ford's own words on the pardon and other subjects were "hot news." The book's publishers, Harper & Row and Reader's Digest, sued, charging that Navasky had violated the copyright laws and stolen former President Ford's right to determine the time and place for first publication of his recollections...
...been specifically designed to protect TIME in the event of prior publication by another magazine or newspaper. The publishers won in federal district court. But the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City held that the unauthorized publication was justified under the fair-use clause of the copyright law. The clause allows protected works to be quoted for purposes of criticism, teaching, research or news reporting...
...fair use." Wrote O'Connor: "Where an author and publisher have invested extensive resources in creating an original work and are poised to release it to the public, no legitimate aim is served by pre-empting the right of first publication." The majority made clear that "no author may copyright facts or ideas." Protection is limited to "those aspects of the work . . . that display the < stamp of the author's originality." The Nation's view that using Ford's words was "essential to reporting the news story," said O'Connor, would "destroy any expectation of copyright protection in the work...