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  United Artists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s).
The United Artists Corporation (aka United Artists Associated, United Artists Pictures, and United Artists Films) is a movie studio and a subsidiary of MGM, itself a subdivision of MGM/UA Entertainment Co., which is owned by Sony Pictures and Comcast.
United Artists recorded a major loss for the year; to Transamerica, it was only a blip on a multi-billion dollar balance sheet, but it soured the relationship forever.
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 United Artists: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Thirtysomething was an american evening television drama, of the type popularly labelled a soap opera when broadcast during the daytime....
United artists records was founded by united artists soon after its own founding in 1919 to distribute soundtracks from its movies....
The united states dollar is the official currency of the united states....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/un/united_artists.htm   (3988 words)

  
 Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Encyclopedia Britannica Educ. Corp. v. Crooks, 558 F. Supp. 1247 (W.D.N.Y. 1983)
Under these circumstances, it is not reasonable to permit defendants to engage in copying and using plaintiffs' works for a limited period of time when these same copyrighted works are readily available from the plaintiffs for a limited period of time.
Concerning BOCES' cable television transmissions, defendants argue that BOCES only received television signals broadcast by WNED-TV and therefore cannot be considered to have "performed" plaintiffs' works when BOCES subsequently transmitted these programs to the schools.
United Artists Television, Inc., supra, it is not a "performer" as a matter of law.
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 Publication of the Computer/Law Institute Amsterdam
If it were no longer necessary for artists to conclude agreements with record companies, because the artists could reach a worldwide audience themselves or because other parties are better at online distribution than the labels are, clearly, the record companies — as we know them — could become redundant, at least in their distribution function.
If collective management were mandatory, artists would likely be entitled to a substantial part of the income extracted of on demand distribution, as they are with regard to performances and broadcasts (in The Netherlands they get 50 %).
Of course, like their users, the p2p providers are free riding on the efforts of artists, composers and — to the extent that they invested in (marketing) the recordings — of record labels.
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 WritingSchool.com - Legal - Tasini v. NYT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
On December 16, 1993, the Authors filed this civil action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
United Artists Television, Inc., 425 F.2d 397 (CA2 1970) (creating a legal fiction in which the publisher to whom an author gave first publication rights was considered the legal owner of the authors copyright, which the publisher was deemed to hold in trust for the beneficial owner, the author).
There have been allegations that smaller publishers sometimes believe that they are entitled to share in the subsidiary rights and refuse to reassign, or insist upon sharing part of the profits of [the] sales to motion picture, television or dramatic users.
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 NEW YORK TIMES CO., INC., ET AL. v. TASINI ET AL. 533 U.S. 483 -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
While pre-1976 law had the effect of encouraging an author to transfer her entire copyright to the
United Artists Television, Inc., 425 F. 2d 397 (CA2 1970) (creating a legal fiction in which the publisher to whom an author gave first publication rights was considered the legal owner of the author's copyright, which the publisher was deemed to hold in trust for the "beneficial owner," the author).
In these cases, the author must undertake the burden of proving his contract with the publisher and demonstrating his capacity to sue." Kaminstein 21.
www.justia.us /us/533/483/case.html   (12484 words)

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