Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publishers sought $12,500 in damages, the amount lost when TIME, which had purchased first magazine publication rights, dropped its plan to print a 7,500-word excerpt. A contract clause had 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...
Lord Mountbatten, in a newly released 1961 excerpt of his diary, on the dawning space era: "If there is general disarmament, this will be a wonderful age, but if our ability to control space is solely to be used to increase our destructive capabilities, then I see little chance of the world surviving...
...addition to covering and analyzing the week's news, TIME occasionally offers its readers a bonus: an advance look at the memoirs of historic figures. Nikita Khrushchev, Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter are among the world leaders whose books have been excerpted in the magazine. The current selection is something of a break with tradition: the author, Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, was virtually unknown outside diplomatic and political circles. Only with the sensational revelations in his new book, Breaking with Moscow, does he emerge from the shadowy world of superpower espionage. Last week's eleven-page excerpt carried...
...project was supervised by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who has helped excerpt the memoirs of Kissinger, Carter, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Historian Theodore White for TIME. "It's always fascinating to look in these windows on history," he says. "What we're trying to do is give our readers fresh insights and illuminations of the news, a dimension that is almost impossible to achieve by even the best weekly journalism...
...Machiavelli were alive and living in the Soviet elite today, he would be a student, not a professor." So writes Arkady Shevchenko in the second and concluding excerpt from his memoirs, to appear next week in TIME. Shevchenko recounts how, finally fed up with the Soviet system despite his privileged place in it, he seeks and is promised asylum in the U.S.--but only after he agrees to become "a reluctant spy." For the next 2 1/2 years he lives in constant fear of discovery by the KGB and in constant guilt about the family he might have to leave...