Intellectual Property
Dec. 28, 1999
Free or Fee?
The courts struggled with how to protect an individual's ideas from exploitation by another without unduly interfering with the public's interest in the free flow of ideas.
By any measure, the 1950s were pivotal years for the entertainment industry. As the decade opened, the major motion-picture studios had only recently been stripped of their theaters for antitrust reasons by the Justice Department. The McCarthy-era blacklist, which perhaps marked the entertainment indus...
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