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...time is 1931. The story begins in a medium-size city near Chicago. There Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) works as a hit man for mob boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), who has raised him as his son--a man who bewilderingly, entrancingly combines Irish bonhomie with ruthless criminality...
Lawsuits over "digital rights" have swelled court dockets as artists and publishers disagree over who controls a new medium when an old contract is silent. Since the advent of film and then TV, each technological advance has caused a scramble to define ownership. But the issue has taken on heightened importance as new venues for copyrighted works increase the potential revenue from popular characters and stories. Characters can now be franchised from a book to a film and could eventually exist continuously on television, video, DVD and the Internet...
...automatically own the right to resell freelance contributors' stories to such digital databases as LexisNexis. The publishers have since removed the freelancers' articles from the databases. Keller maintained that such rulings damage the public interest by withholding rights from the parties best positioned to publish works in the new medium...
...other major studios and distributors, Disney is especially careful these days to try to secure a blanket license from its performers to use their work in current and future technologies. What seems like a blanket license today, though, may be Swiss cheese in 10 years, when an unanticipated new medium--self-generating holography? 3-D lasers?--becomes the rage. The cost of renegotiating so many licenses may cause companies to charge ahead with new uses before they have established exactly what rights they hold. "Sometimes when there is a market opportunity, companies think they have...
...dinner table; in the cafeteria; on the barbecue patio; with mustard at a ballpark; or, a billion times a year, with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun. Beef is, the TV commercials say, "America's food"--the Stars and Stripes served up medium rare--and as entwined with the nation's notion of its robust frontier heritage as, well, the Marlboro...