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Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 8, 2024 by - Dank (push to talk) 01:01, 2 December 2023 (UTC)



Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. is a landmark 1948 New York Supreme Court decision. It was the first case in the United States to recognize moral rights in authorship. The Soviet composers Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian, Sergei Prokofiev, and Nikolai Myaskovsky sued Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation for using their compositions in the film The Iron Curtain. Although their compositions were in the public domain in the United States, the composers argued that the film violated their moral rights by using their works in a manner contrary to their beliefs. The court rejected the composers' argument, holding that there was no clear standard for adjudicating moral rights and that moral rights conflict with free use of public domain works. The decision has been criticized for misunderstanding moral rights and praised for upholding the right of the public to use public domain works over the rights of authors to censor uses that they disagree with.
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 * Promoted: November 15, 2023
 * Reasons for nomination:
 * Support as nominator. voorts (talk/contributions) 00:35, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Support Mujinga (talk) 00:50, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:41, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking January 8 for this one; let me know if that doesn't work for you. - Dank (push to talk) 16:22, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Works for me. voorts (talk/contributions) 22:32, 28 November 2023 (UTC)