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• Save the Music: From Sampling to Streaming

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  "Hi, my names Iggy, please purchase my music." As a big music fan, I was not surprised to read that a new report shows that those who download the most music illegally also spend the most money on music. I know that from firsthand experience. However, while this “sampling” theory has been suggested for years, ...
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• Federal Judge Orders BlueBeat.com to Stop Selling Beatles Songs

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  The works of most every major recording artist are now legally available for download. That is, however, except for those of The Beatles. Thus, it came as quite a surprise when, on October 30, the music sharing website BlueBeat.com began offering 25-cent downloads of Beatles music. The record label EMI, which owns ...
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• A Victory Against Obama’s Unionism in New Hampshire

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 419
  In a victory for free labor, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has cancelled its solicitation for bids to build a new Jobs Corps Center in the state of New Hampshire. Why is it a victory? Because initial plans to receive bids would have discriminated against non-union construction companies per ...
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• Did the Berlin Wall Really Come Down?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  The Reds responded to such ridicule with paranoia and increasingly strident attacks, claiming that their opponents were dishonest and morally corrupt. Red governments proclaimed that the moral... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit – The New Extension And Expansion

  
  RErockstar.com — Authority: 463
  Tax credits for everyone (almost). After several premature announcements that the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit has been extended and expanded , the amendment (S.A. 2712) to the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 has been voted, passed, and signed into law by the President. ...
  3 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Union Violates Free Speech, the Right to vote and Smashes Common American Democracy

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 419
  There’s not much that union supporters and I can agree upon. But here is one incident where I can wholeheartedly support the aggrieved members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who have found themselves victims of their own union.The SEIU wanted to renegotiate a contract with officials of Sonoma ...
  5 days ago

• Methods of Procurement in The UK

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  Methods of Procurement in the Construction Industry Extra notes to accompany these notes can be found overleaf. There are 5 main methods of procurement. These are: Direct Purchase – this is the buying of a predetermined item, such as a building or shell of a building etc. Lump Sum Competitive Tender - This ...
  6 days ago

• The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: A Curveball for MLB?

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  In an effort to protect people’s genetic information from exploitation, President George W. Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) into law on May 21, 2008. The Act forbids insurance providers from denying medical coverage to otherwise healthy people because they have a genetic ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Forcing Kids Into Poverty

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 129
  Quebec group demands apology francophone ‘ethnocide’ MONTREAL — Prince Charles should use the occasion of his visit to Quebec next month to apologize on behalf of the British Crown for past harm caused to French culture in North America, says the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Prince Charles and his wife ...
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• Foley & Lardner Score Big Contract with NIH

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 139
  The National Institute of Health has awarded a ten year, $208 million contract to Milwaukee based Foley & Lardner .  The contract calls for Foley & Lardner to provide intellectual property services in areas such as patents for biotechnology. Foley & Lardner recently deferred for the second time its ...
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• Your Baby is No Einstein

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  Disney’s Baby Einstein , the wildly popular brand of DVDs, CDs, and toys designed for infants, has been making headlines with its new refund program for DVDs purchased between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009. Protesters of Baby Einstein see this as Disney’s admission that the DVDs do not, in fact, make your ...
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• In Scandinavia, a Right to Development (and Broadband)

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  On December 7, the world will come to the Scandinavian city of Copenhagen, Denmark to negotiate a global agreement on climate change. As the 15th Conference of the Parties approaches, the developing world continues to struggle to secure a “right to development.” But another “right” has garnered a lot of press ...
  2 weeks ago

• User-Generated Content, Social Networks, and Virtual Worlds, Part II: Volume 11, No. 4

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  The Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law is pleased to present three more abstracts from its most recent issue, which was released in May of 2009. The first three abstracts can be found here . Below are the summaries for Patenting Games: Baker v. Selden Revisited , by Shubha Ghosh;  Law and ...
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• Government Cyber Spending to Increase Drastically

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 431
  According to research conducted by the analytic firm Input, government spending on cyber security will increase at a compound rate of 8.1 percent between 2009 and 2014. Funding for contracted work will increase $3.8 billion from 2009 to 2014. Government spending on general IT products and services will also ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
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• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
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• Ladies? Is This The Party For You?

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 135
  May I please see a show of hands of the ladies that are members of the GOP? This is the party of the absurd…sorry…but if you are a woman and still think the GOP is the Party that best represents your interests in the political world…then you should hold hands with Rep. Bachmann and pray…..this party seems to ...
  2 weeks ago

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