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Who Cares Who Wrote "Shakespeare"?, Peter Jaszi Jan 1988

Who Cares Who Wrote "Shakespeare"?, Peter Jaszi

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Obviously, a great many people, on both (or all) sides of the "authorship question," and they care a lot. The real question is why. Proponents of various authorship claimants compete in their protestations of admiration for the plays and poems in controversy. But if these works are in fact so universally and inexhaustibly fertile of significance, why should any admirer of them waste precious time, which might better be devoted to the study of the texts themselves, arguing about an ultimately irresoluble historical puzzle? And why is so much of the discussion conducted at such a relatively high pitch of …


When Works Collide: Derivative Motion Pictures, Underlying Rights, And The Public Interest, Peter Jaszi Apr 1981

When Works Collide: Derivative Motion Pictures, Underlying Rights, And The Public Interest, Peter Jaszi

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Dramatic motion pictures' are prime examples of what copyright law terms "derivative works' because they are almost invariably based upon one or more prior works. Derivative works are so-called because they borrow from original works whether or not those works are in the same media. The universe of derivative works is broad. It encompasses everything from stuffed toys representing cartoon characters to translations of serious-minded literature.


The Gulag Archipelago: Implications For American Criminal Justice, Ira P. Robbins Jan 1980

The Gulag Archipelago: Implications For American Criminal Justice, Ira P. Robbins

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