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...their complaint, the publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and a Time Inc. subsidiary, Little, Brown, charge that the faculty members "regularly select" copyrighted material and arrange for the photocopy store to run it off. These "anthologies" become, in effect, student textbooks. The Association of American Publishers, which is financing the suit, concedes that N.Y.U. is not the worst offender. "There is widespread noncompliance in the academic community," says A.A.P. Copyright Director Carol Risher. "But many schools have done more than N.Y.U. to educate their professors about the copyright...
...Friday, the extent of the devastation was electrifying. The most money was lost on Warner. The company's stock sank during the week like a runaway elevator-from $54 to $35, a loss in market valuation of an astounding $1.3 billion. Shares of the other market leader, Mattel Inc., which makes Intellivision, lost $192 million, fully 40% of their earlier value...
Even the up-and-comers among video games were not spared. The stock of Coleco Industries Inc., which has a hit cartridge called Donkey Kong and a new console, ColecoVision, fell almost nine points in two days. Declared President Arnold Greenberg: "This is an inevitable initial reaction when the largest company in the industry says it has had disappointments. Some of the newer companies like us have really taken a large share away from Atari and Mattel." Coleco, based in Hartford, Conn., expects its sales to jump 180% this year, to $500 million...
...Engineer Richard Colonna to examine the suits, literally stitch by stitch. Its provisional finding: "Egregious oversights"-to use the words of one of the investigators-by the prime contractor, the Hamilton Standard division of United Technologies Corp., and by a key subcontractor, Carleton Controls Corp., a subsidiary of Moog Inc. By implication, the report also faulted the space agency...
Zeren Earls, president of First Night Inc., describes the annual fair, with events scattered throughout Boston, as a "public celebration of New Year's Eve through the arts...