Word: copyrights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mercifully, various copyright laws and actors' objections restrict Prascak's creativity. This is why I wasn't greeted at my table by a styrofoam penis, and why the actors didn't strap on plastic penises before the performance. These restrictions weren't enough, however, to prevent the teasers from aggressively advertising the f-word or the fliers presenting a drawing of two men charging at each other with ridiculously oversized guess-whats. I should have known what I was in for when I saw the flier with Prascak's name given the same billing as Mamet...
...Congress place it in a separate category by turning to "moral rights," a legal concept dating back to the French Revolution. It permits artists to block the public display of their work in a defaced or modified form. Moral rights are also embodied in the Berne Convention, the international copyright agreement adopted by 76 countries, but the provision is one reason why the U.S. has never signed...
...recoup his investment and time, Gilbert has proposed a novel way to sell scientific work which has important ramifications for university research; he believes he has the legal right to copyright his discoveries and sell them. Much like Dow Jones sells its stock quoting service to stockbrokers, Gilbert would place his genetic map in a large computer database and charge pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies an access...
Critics say that Gilbert's copyright ideas could transform campus-based research by increasing the profit motive for professors. The free exchange of information would be restricted as scholars worry about protecting their discoveries from competitors. And connections between professors and the companies that develop their finds would tighten the ties between universities and industries, which critics fear will threaten academic freedom...
...Feelings for the first time in 1977, he could not believe his ears. Reason: the song was indistinguishable from one he had written 21 years earlier called Pour Toi. Once Gaste discovered that Feelings had made a fortune for its composer, Brazilian Morris Albert, he decided to sue for copyright infringement. Albert maintains that he had never heard Pour Toi before writing Feelings. A federal district court last week ruled for Gaste, awarding him 88% of all royalties earned since 1983, or $501,000. Said a jubilant Gaste: "I want to thank American justice for giving me my baby back...