Austrian writer's heirs seek royalties
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A German court on Thursday began considering a lawsuit seeking royalties from the heirs of German composer Richard Strauss for nine works, including opera favorites "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Elektra."
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A Habsburg heir is hoping someone will take a bite of his offer Monday to sell "Dracula's Castle" in Transylvania.
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Business & money: Lawyers for former Telegraph owner fight US government attempt to seize $69.8m of assets if tycoon is found guilty of fraud and racketeering.
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Scientists have exhumed the bodies of some relatives of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Salzburg, Austria, to obtain DNA samples.
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The Tolkien Trust joined a private family trust of Tolkien heirs and the British arm of HarperCollins Publishers in suing New Line Cinema for breach of contract.
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A cash-strapped Hungarian village is offering the chance of immortality to anyone willing to pay to have a street named after them, and it's hoping world famous celebrities apply.
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NEW YORK - A newly discovered handwritten letter and short story by Ernest Hemingway will be auctioned in December, but custodians of his estate have not granted permission for the works to be published.    The two-page letter and five-page story, based on an incident at a bullfighting ring and written in 1924, were discovered last year by the son of Donald Ogden Stewart...
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As new digital-distribution plans gain traction, an inevitable fight over publishing royalties breaks out. If songwriters lose, your ears will suffer. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Now that a growing number of paintings returned from museums to Jewish families who once owned them have been fetching millions at auction, critics in Germany and Austria say that the claims of restitution have little to do with justice
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Oct. 7, 2004 - Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a self-described advocate for &quot;the weak&quot; whose forceful defenses of social and political freedom have frequently clashed with conservatives in her native country, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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The spectacular art collection of a German multi-millionaire goes on show Wednesday amid a raging debate about the source of his fortune: an inheritance from his grandfather, a top Nazi industrialist.
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Heirs of a Jewish family that lost its German department store fortune under the Nazis have won a court verdict that advances their &#36;193 million claim to property on a famous Berlin square, a lawyer said Monday.
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A signed proof of Ernest Hemingway's novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," will be offered at auction in November.
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Two young heirs to the Pritzker family empire can go forward with claims that relatives looted their trusts of more than $1 billion, a Cook County judge ruled yesterday.
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ONE of two German sisters who allege they are the illegitimate children of the controversial Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan has gone to court in Austria in a bid to be recognised as ...
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A previously unknown story and a letter ascribed to Ernest Hemingway have caused a dispute between those who want to see them published and those who don't.
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Vienna, October 8: Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek fears that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature will turn her into something she never wanted to be -- a celebrity.