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...Square's educational bordelles had been experiencing difficulty, however. Their first major trouble came in 1933, when Macmillan, Houghton Miffin, Harper Brothers, and Ginn and Company brought suit against the College Tutoring Bureau charging that their abridging of text-books constituted a violation of copyright laws. A federal district court awarded the publishers damages and enjoined the College Tutors from continuing such practices...
...commercial painters welcome reproduction of their work, since it widens their fame, but they generally miss out on royalties (in the U.S.. an artist must specifically reserve copyright on what he sells; otherwise he loses it). Reproductions have increased the nation's appetite for art. but they may also diminish people's longing to own originals...
From The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley, Viking Press; Copyright 1954 by Phyllis McGinley
...Copyright 1954 by TIME...
There is no industry ruling, as far as I know, which says that we have to rent films indirectly through an agent ... At no time have we ever rented films from a "producer who does not know where they are going." This is a direct violation of the copyright...