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...roughly comparable to reprinting somebody else's book without permission. To test the broadcasters' right to require payment from the cable firms, United Artists Television Inc. sued a West Virginia CATV company that had retransmitted to its subscribers several United Artists films and cartoons from three out-of-town channels. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court held 5 to 1 that CATV is free to operate without paying any royalties. Unlike a station or a network, said the court, CATV does not "perform" a copyrighted program, but merely "enhances the viewer's capacity to receive the broadcaster...
Planned as a quiet discussion with a panel of Harvard professors and out-of-town school officials, the forum quickly became a verbal free-for-all. Community representatives--consisting of most of Roxbury's prominent leaders--zeroed in on Anderson, director of Operation Schoolhouse, competing in the ferocity of their invective. The demands--control of Anderson's Boston-contracted money, immediate hiring of blacks to his all-white task force--took him by surprise, and the intensity of the hostility left the Ed School stunned. Eventually, community leaders walked out, telling the panelist that if Harvard professionals wanted to talk...
...Californian, is still struggling. Ramparts magazine has produced a slender daily with the motto: "What good is freedom of the press if there isn't one?" A free press apparently means little nuggets of New Leftism; last week the paper expanded somewhat, adding some Chronicle columnists. Meanwhile, out-of-town papers are enjoying brisk sales. The best local rundown of the day's news is provided by educational TV station KQED, which has hired some Chronicle people to read the news...
...Sunday paper, the Knickerbocker News. Put out by the publishers of Funk & Wagnall's Dictionary, it will contain many of the columnists, comics and features that used to appear in the World Journal Tribune but now have no New York outlet, although they are carried by out-of-town papers...
Other possible programs include: exhibits in the Fogg by undergraduates, art lecture series, and visits to out-of-town collections...