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The recently passed American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act provided new laws and regulations aimed at stimulating the real estate market. This legislation also offers tools for many who had previously had only foreclosure and bankruptcy protection to turn towards.

Linux is often mentioned in discussions on Intellectual Property (IP) and the protection thereof. The reason is two-fold. First, the Linux platform is often seen as the “Wild West” where there are no (enforceable) laws. The perception is that Linux makes it easier to pirate software, music, video and other digitized IP products.

August 25, 2008 Boston.com brings us a story from the New York Times (which requires login) of a Florida teacher using images of Mickey Mouse to teach evolution: A former Navy flight instructor not used to pulling his punches, Campbell fought hard for passage of the new standards.

But I actually have found at least one person who thinks that having the right to keep and bear arms infringes on our freedom. Really! Steve Chapman, a member of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board, in an editorial today says that Florida’s law that protects an individual’s right to keep a gun in their car is an attack on property rights.

Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and held that licenses such as Creative Commons (CC) licenses set conditions on the use of copyrighted work as opposed to covenants.

With the Games now in full swing, Olympic tourists would be unaware of the concentrated efforts on the streets of Beijing that preceded their visit to the Chinese capital. Foreigners residing in Beijing before the Games would know, however, that cheap DVDs are no longer freely available on the street

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Does the Peri minicar (left), built by China's Great Wall Motor, look remarkably similar to the Fiat Panda (right)? A Turin court was in no doubt last month when it barred the Peri from being sold in the E.U., after an appeal by Fiat.

Spain’s property market is a mess. Even the most hardened estate agent would have trouble persuading anyone that Spain was a good investment at the moment. (If there were any left in Spain.) And for once, every one agrees. These are some recent headlines from around the world regarding the state of the Spanish property investment market.

Yet another music service goes dark as the Yahoo/Rhapsody music store goes into the final phases of completion with customers wondering what to do with their music when they can no longer move them to another computer, because the DRM servers will not be available