Word: copyrights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the fund, which for technical reasons separated from its parent organization in 1957, has not only been siphoning off potential contributions from the N.A.A.C.P. but also confusing donors about what the two organizations stand for. The N.A.A.C.P. has retained former Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts to press a copyright infringement suit against the L.D.F. in federal court. Some association insiders charge that so much of the N.A.A.C.P.'s $7 million budget for 1982 has been earmarked for the case that important programs will have to be curtailed...
Long familiar with the book from his undergraduate research at Haverford College Bond wanted to hold the 17th century equivalent of a copyright registry in his own hands and examine the first official reference to a playwright named William Shakespeare. "I had run across so many notations mentioning the volume," he recalls, "and then to actually have it in front of me-that was the wonderful thing about Widener and about Harvard...
...reminder, however: because of thorny copyright problems, the material on The Beatles at the Beeb will probably never make it to record. This may not be an insurmountable problem in an age of technological marvels. As Bruce Springsteen used to tell listeners at home when he did his own radio shows: "Roll them tapes...
...Copyright © 1982 by Henry A. Kissinger
Companies are now trying a number of tactics to stop the pirates. Atari, the leading video-game maker and a subsidiary of Warner Communications, retains 15 lawyers to file copyright protection lawsuits to combat pirates. Last month a three-judge panel in New York upheld a ruling that videogame companies can copyright their products, including the visual and sound effects down to the last zap. Many companies have introduced special coding schemes that are designed to stop copying. The trouble is that computer specialists, who may be only in their teens, can often easily break the protective codes. Says Steven...