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| 6.29.01 Newsflash! I need to update this site more often. The Decision comes down in Tasini vs. NYT. E-zine Tips is quite good, by the way. I will be spending quite a bit more time with such things soon... Artists' rights, hm?. For Courtney Love, apparently, intellectual property cuts both ways. I like her own music quite a bit, but it seems like the members of Nirvana ought to have some rights to their old band's songs. 5.1.01 The LA Times reports on a case in which a judge must determine whether an artist must pay a licensing fee to depict the Three Stooges, or whether it's a matter of artistic license and free "speech." 4.24.01 Intellectual property works in mysterious ways. According to the LA Times, the NAACP benefits from the use of the writings of Dorothy Parker. In a profile of a songwriter who has set Parker's words to music, the Times reports: "Seeking permission to perform the work in public, Lee was led to NAACP headquarters in northwest Baltimore, where Parker's ashes have been interred since 1988. After the writer's fatal heart attack on June 7, 1967, her modest assets and voluminous papers were left to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom Parker admired but did not know. With King's murder the following year in Memphis, the Parker estate became the property of the NAACP, and her ashes languished in the filing cabinet of a Wall Street attorney. They were forwarded to Baltimore when the civil rights group moved its headquarters there from New York in the 1980s. Ned Himmelrich, an attorney with the Gordon, Feinblatt law firm assigned to the Parker estate by the NAACP, said he "gets a couple of requests every week" from people who want to use the words of Dorothy Parker. Requests range from off-Broadway producers to high school drama clubs to people who think they can make a buck by putting Parker's quips on napkin rings. The NAACP charges accordingly, Himmelrich said, with the producers of the movie "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" paying significantly more than the price quoted community theater groups." Ms. Parker left a legacy to Dr. King; a sort of investment that continues to generate revenue. That in itself is not unusual. But her legacy was of words and ideas, and so every time there is a professional printing or performance of such Parkerisms as "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think." or (In a book review:) "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown aside with great force." a little money goes to further the usually solemn cause of racial equality. 4.22.01 Lawrence Lessig on what Congress should do about copyright and the market. What he says is fairly obvious. I hope. 4.7.01 I got a new job. Now I work at the Center for Nonprofit Management. I like it a lot so far. If you want links about managing nonprofit organizations, check out the Genie. |
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