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More lawsuits are sure to raise the issue again. But before that happens, Congress may yet resolve the matter. For the past decade, it has been trying and failing to replace the current copyright law, which dates from 1909, and this year it is expected finally to pass a new law. Many copyright experts favor some kind of compromise, for example, legislation providing for a payment by subscribing organizations that want the right to duplicate. But no one can predict whether Congress will choose that solution...
Government officials can pick from a choice of press curbs to stop the Sunday Times: the 1911 Official Secrets Acts, which bar unauthorized disclosure of any secret government document; sweeping copyright restrictions; vague and unwritten contempt-of-court rules; and the principle of "confidence," which prohibits publication of industrial secrets and other private information. Those legal weapons are seldom put into action. Their mere existence serves to discourage publication of sensitive material. Editors note wryly that a Watergate scandal might go undetected in Britain because the press there would be prevented from pursuing the story...
...case, Williams and Wilkins Co. v. the United States, involves the "fair use" doctrine of copyright law. Fair use suspends the payment of royalties and permission fees in certain situations where copyrighted material is used. The original purpose of the doctrine was to assist individual scholars in their research...
...Hoopes, a lawyer who filed an amicus curiae brief for the Association of American Publishers in behalf of Williams and Wilkins, said yesterday: "What has been happening is that hundreds of copies of articles are made and distributed. It amounts to a reprinting and republishing operation in violation of copyright laws...
...understandable that Liberman did not attract much attention in the '50s. What seems incomprehensible is the way his work was publicly ignored while being covertly raided by other artists in the '60s. Though nobody holds the copyright on circles, Liberman's use of them predicted the target motifs of 1960s color-field painting...