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with: language and nudity. If I left it in, it would not be able to be seen in
cities where I most want it to be seen." Los Angeles Times F1 (June 24,
1992).
4a Abramsv. United States, 250 U.S. 616, 630(1919).
49 Independent 1 (September 16, 1991) (New Kids); New York Times B1
(April 20, 1991) (Madonna), C3 (March 20, 1992) (Apple); Los Angeles
Times F1 (September 5, 1992) (Prince); Los Angeles Times F1 (May 11,
1992) (Streisand). Aerosmith got $35 million for four albums with Columbia,
Motley Crue $35 million for five with Elecktra, and the Rolling Stones
$42 million for three with Virgin. Los Angeles Times F1 (September 5,
1992). Television talk shows generate extraordinary profits. Although
they cost only $10-20 million a year to produce, Oprah Winfrey grossed
$157 million in 1991, Phil Donahue $90 million, and Sally Jessy Raphael
$60 million. New York Times C1 (June 22, 1992). Even authors command
staggering sums. Barbara Taylor Bradford signed a contract with
HarperCollins for more than $20 million for three novels; she retained
foreign language and film rights. New York Times B3 (May 6, 1992).
50 New York Times C1 (February 18, 1992).
51 Los Angeles Times D1 (March 15, 1992). With the collapse of communism
the Moscow branch of the Smimov family has sued Pierre Smirnov
Company of Hartford, Connecticut, claiming that the emigre from whom
it derived the name (and secret recipe) in 1939 was a gambler who had
ceded his share to his brothers in 1905. The American firm had sales of
$550 million in 117 countries in 1991. The 150 million Russians,
however, drink 100 million bottles of vodka a day! Los Angeles Times A5
(August 14, 1992).
52 Chronicle of Higher Education A35 (April 8, 1992). Editor and author
Gordon Lish has sued Harper's magazine for publishing a marketing letter
he sent to prospective students in his writing seminar. Courts have
protected J.D. Salinger's letters and Gerald Ford's unpublished biography.
New York Times B1 (September 22, 1992).
53 International Guardian 3, 9 (September 14, 1991).
54 New York Times B10 (April 3, 1992). The Supreme Court dismised
Koons's appeal without comment. New York Times A9 (October 14,
1992).
55 New York Times s.2 p.1 (March 15, 1992). RKO paid a Hearst biographer
$15,000 to settle the claim after the trial ended in a hung jury.
Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. has sued Vogue over a 14-page fashion
feature called "Tarzan, Meet Jane," in the April 1992 issue. The company
alleged that the sexually suggestive poses "are inconsistent with the good,
wholesome and attractive images of Tarzan and Jane, which have been
cultivated. . .over the course of 70 years." They claimed proprietary
rights not just in the names but also in any "character in a loincloth with a
knife in a jungle seting." A decade earlier they won a court order that the
1981 movie "Tarzan the Apeman" be edited to eliminate sex scenes with
Bo Derek. New York Times B1 (April 28, 1992).
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