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Critics of the CTEA argue that it was never the original intention for copyright protection to be extended in the United States. Attorney Jenny L. Dixon mentions that "the United States has always viewed copyright primarily as a vehicle for achieving social benefit based on the belief that encouragement of individual effort by personal gain is the best way to advance the public welfare;" [24 ...
Sonny & Cher, 1966. Bono began his music career as a songwriter at Specialty Records, where his song "Things You Do to Me" was recorded by Sam Cooke, and went on to work for record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s as a promotion man, percussionist and "gofer".
Supreme Court precedent, he argued, held that one must be able to discern an "outer limit" to a limited power; in the case of retrospective copyright extensions, Congress could continue to extend copyright terms indefinitely through a set of limited extensions, thus rendering the "limited times" requirement meaningless.
Cher officially came out on top in her years-long legal dispute with ex-husband Sonny Bono‘s widow, Mary Bono. A federal judge in the Central District of California ruled in Cher’s favor on ...
The pair had made up the 1960s and ‘70s pop duo Sonny & Cher and were married from 1967 to 1975. Cher said in her lawsuit that the 50-50 split carried on after he died in a skiing accident in 1998.
Cher has sued the widow of her former musical partner and ex-husband Sonny Bono over royalties for Sonny and Cher songs including “I Got You Babe” and “The Beat Goes On." In a federal ...
Under the original law, the window to serve the termination notice had ended in 1997, but the Sonny Bono Act also added a new subsection allowing the Shuster heirs to terminate 75 to 80 years after the copyright was first secured (with the usual two- to ten-year advance notice). [37]
Cher opened up about her first meeting with the late Sonny Bono during a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning. The two singers, who went on to find success as Sonny & Cher, met for the first ...