Anything an instructor says or presents in a classroom belongs solely to the instructor and not the university or the students. This innate invocation of the right to Copyright original spoken and written material belongs solely to the mind creating the information: The Instructor.
I have worked as a freelance author, artist and performer for my entire adult life. I support honest freelancers that share the same work ethic and morality. I believe in set project prices. I do not believe in gouging people with an invented hourly rate that suddenly appears when the bill arrives.
Amazon has a winner in the Kindle e-book
and that kind of success demands imitators who want to make money off
the Kindle brand by creating source websites or fan pages by using some
form of a Kindle-ized URL. Amazon is forced by these
pretend fans to fight them in legal letters and in a court of law, if
necessary, because to use the Kindle trademark without explicit
permission from Amazon is to infringe upon the innate rights of Amazon.
Continue reading → Infringing on the Amazon Mark: Kindle Websites
Lindsay Lohan was supposed to do jail time for a car chase — but ended up only serving 84 minutes of her four-day sentence:
Lindsay Lohan entered a Southern California jail on
November 15 – and walked out 84 minutes later. The 21-year-old actress
checked herself into the Century Regional Detention Facility in
Lynwood, California at 10:30 a.m. to serve a minimum 24-hour sentence
following an alleged car chase in July, and a crash in Beverly Hills in
May. In line with prison policy for releasing non-violent offenders due
to overcrowding, Lohan was released at 11:54 a.m.
Continue reading → Lindsay Lohan Stiffs Justice in 84 Minutes
I like Deal Memos because they’re just as binding as a real contract and they can save a lot of time and heartache.
If time is of the essence — and the tar pit of approvals is bearing down on you and a project that needs to completed fast — use a Deal Memo to trick out the most important details that both parties have agreed to, and you can make it binding via email and with replies of agreement.
Deal Memos can codify and express and protect both sides until a formal paper contract can be drawn — and quartered! — for official signatures and all the unnecessary and punishing boilerplate.
You must be logged in to post a comment.