Return of the living dead
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A case brought by singer Phil Collins following the release of bootleg CD copies in Germany of a concert he held in the US in 1983 has had wide-reaching consequences. It has eventually come to affect large areas of copyright legislation, causing considerable confusion in the publishing industry. Traditionally, work has lost copyright protection 50 years after the author's death, but this will no longer be the case. The rest of Europe must now come into line with Germany, where copyright lasts for 70 years after an author's death or from first posthumous publication.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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Willie Morris
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Journalist and writer Willie Morris studied at the University of Texas and at Oxford University, England. He then worked as editor at the Texas Observer before joining Harper's magazine in New York, NY. He became editor of this magazine at the age of only 33. He was ousted from the magazine by the controlling family in 1971, and then taught for a time at the University of Mississippi. His first book, the childhood memoir 'North Toward Home,' was published in 1967 and subsequently serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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Sigrid de Lima
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Novelist Sigrid de Lima was encouraged to read and write from an early age. She studied at Hiram Hadyn's workshop at the New York School for Social Research, and this led to the publication of her first novel, 'Captain's Beach,' in 1950. This novel was followed by 'The Swift Cloud' in 1952, 'Carnival by the Sea' in 1954 and 'Praise a Fine Day' in 1960. Negative reaction to her fifth novel, 'Oriane,' published in 1968, prompted her to stop writing.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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