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• WM---Excellent value play below $10
  --First ask youself, do I want to buy a stock when it is oversold? If so, read on... At Friday's closing price of 4.05, Washington Mutual (WM) is attractive as a speculative value play, based on a [...]
• How serious is copyright infringement?
  The copyright statutes tell us that a lot of money can be awarded in copyrigt infringement cases, but we rarely see it happen except in big-operation piracy operations that also fall under the [...]
• The immaturity of corporate america
  Have you ever felt like this? [caption id="attachment_162" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Stay Away!"][/caption] When I was a kid we used to get these little cards sometimes that had a [...]
• YouTube, Copyright, and the DMCA
  Yesterday saw a possibly dramatic development in the YouTube world. The DMCA (digital millenium copyright act) includes a provision designed to address the concerns of copyrght holders over the [...]
• Jackson Browne and John McCain
  Sometimes you get a say, and sometimes you don't. Jackson Browne alleges he should have had a say is whether his recording of his song was used in a political commercial for John McCain, and he's [...]
• Court Reinforces Control Concept in Copyright
  It seems obvious, but it never hurts to have a court say it's true. Money is not the only thing that makes the world go 'round, and free does not mean anything goes. Briefly, an open-source [...]
• Scanning Photos
  Photos, of course, are covered by copyright. If you've ever been married, or had professional head shots taken, or you have kids whose after school activity hired a professional photographer to take [...]
• Email - what happens when you die?
  Every original work of authorship that is fixed in a tangible form is protected by copyright. That includes letters and - these days - email. Which means that when you die, those emails may be part [...]
• O-Blige Me, Mary
  [caption id="attachment_212" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Broadcast"][/caption]Work-for-hire rules can trip up more than just the authors. The general rule is that copyrightable work [...]
• Magic Copyrights
  Just thought I would note that copyright registration is not a magic thing. It does two main things for you: 1. protects your interests in the event of an infringement 2. makes it slightly [...]