Word: copyrights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue-collar type laugh in all of Rustler's Rhapsody. Director Hugh Wilson presents us with such a ridiculous wild west world that the movie becomes too stupid to be funny. Wilson interjects too many anachronisms into the dialogue and uses too many stupid sight gags. "I hold a copyright on that one," asserts Rex upon finding Pete singing by the fire. In another scene Rex and Pete fall off a cliff. Then we get to see Rex's horse dance. After a while--long about 20 minutes--the jokes wear thin...
...Copyright Royalty Tribunal is one of those federal agencies headed by political appointees who accept obscurity in exchange for good pay: nearly $70,000 a year. The board, which sets royalty rates for commercial use of records and some TV programs, has often been a dumping ground for embarrassing job applicants. One such appointment surfaced last week. The tribunal's new head, Marianne Mele Hall, 34, appeared before a House subcommittee just after Broadcasting magazine had quoted parts of a book, Foundations of Sand, that she claimed to have co-authored. The book, written mainly by Lawrence Hafstad, a physicist...
...encourage more imports of electronics products, copyright protection will be granted on computer programs and semiconductor chips. In the past, American companies have complained that Japanese manufacturers have been able to copy freely foreign programs and chips...
Three of these stories first appeared in Playboy and two others ran in Esquire; the remainder made their debuts in quarterlies or little magazines. That parlay of the slick and scholarly is unusual, particularly for a beginning writer. Odder still, only a peek at the copyright page can confirm just which stories reached the mass or middling audiences; Easy in the Islands is a whole unified by consistent parts. Shacochis, 33, grew up in Virginia and earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in English at the University of Missouri, where he now serves as a visiting writer...
From what we know of Beckett's in this dispute, he would have more happily permitted an adaptation: a play inspired penned, by Beckett (This too copyright owner's permission)Billing this production as an adaptation would have been more honest because it would have recognized the tremendous creative input i.e, changed made...