Are All Those Copyright Warnings Deceiving Us?

A number of years ago, just before the restoration work of the Main Reading Room of the NY Public Library, I recall reading a “Writers Guild of America” article on copyright. The author stated that photocopy was very regulated in other countries but not here. Also, in the same article I recall was the discussion of the Supreme Court ruling that found baseball was a “national past-time” and not subject to the rules limiting monopoly applied in other business and that speech (writing) about baseball not subject to the same rules. I recall a sports bar in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Dodgers or “The Dodgers” that was sued by the Los Angeles baseball franchise for copyright infringement, even though the team had originated there. Lately, I read the WGA is being sued for collecting foreign authors monies but not redistributing it correctly along with other problems, I wonder if they will go on the rumored strike.

Comment by George Myers - August 2, 2007 at The Wall Street Journal Law Blog 8:47 pm

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A Great Gentleman Friend of America: the Marquis de Lafayette:

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