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Music And Law: Copyrighting A Musical Idea, Irving B. Marks, Robert M. Phillips
Music And Law: Copyrighting A Musical Idea, Irving B. Marks, Robert M. Phillips
Cleveland State Law Review
The law of music copyright, although now quite old, is still relatively young in its development and refinement when compared to other segments of the copyright law. The impediment in its progress is partially due to the technicalities inherent in the discipline itself, and also to the lack of musical sophistication on the part of most law making bodies. Modern day electronic developments in recording and storing sound will do much to facilitate and broaden the scope of the law. Its implementation through a Music-Legal Board of Experts could be the effective step needed in order to overcome the present …
Group Law Services In Patent Law, G. Franklin Rothwell
Group Law Services In Patent Law, G. Franklin Rothwell
Cleveland State Law Review
If group legal services are to pervade the field of patent law, and in view of the UMW case and the activities of the unregistered patent practitioners, that I suspect is imminent, the most stringent safeguards should be specifically set forth, including the following: specific approvaland regulation by the Patent Office of the group, its modus operandi,and the patent practitioners participation; and stringent restrictions by the Patent Office of the groups' advertising and promotional activities, both written and outside the group. The Patent Office now has statutory authority to regulate registered practitioners, and some regulation could be accomplished in this …
Unfair Competition In Intellectual Products In The Public Domain, Marian R. Nathan
Unfair Competition In Intellectual Products In The Public Domain, Marian R. Nathan
Cleveland State Law Review
A recent Federal District Court case , Grove Press, Inc. v. Collector's Publication, Inc., illustrates another attempt by our judiciary to find its way out of the immense entanglement of copyright infringement in statutory law and unfair competition in common law besetting properties in the public domain. Two 1964 United States Supreme Court decisions have further complicated the positions of both creators and judiciary.