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A proposal by the Prince George's County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual. The measure has some worried that by the system claiming ownership to the work of others, creativity could be stifled and there would be little incentive to come up with innovative ways to educate students. Some have questioned the legality of the proposal as it relates to students.

Marriage: Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work [Megan Coulter] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Marriage - Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work Marriage is a long journey, which needs both partners to be committed 100%. There are so many things that we will need to experience in marriage on our own before we can get the understanding of marriage in reality. A lot of times we are told that arguments in marriages are bad. Sometimes the quarrels that take place are about trivial things such as where to put the laundry basket

An update on the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act that we discussed in class on Monday.

This article discusses how to turn the e-ink cover of Esquire into a working clock. There is also a brief discussion of the cover and how it works, as well as pictures of the cover.

Risks of self-publishing.  Authors working independently, without an editor willing to challenge, may be working against their best intrests.

Do Orphan Works really benefit from digitization?

It is an E-book that provides insight about the reason to stay healthy. The extreme work pressure and hectic working schedules is leading you towards stress and fatigue. Life is all about to enjoy every moment but stressful life and increasing competition is not letting you enjoy peaceful time. It has been seen that anxiety attacks to those people who live a very stressful life. The book helps you to understand the importance of eating healthy, staying nourished. When you eat right, you not only stay healthy but need not to fight to get perfect body curves.

Barry Diller told Bloomberg TV's Betty Liu that he believes people will pay for media content in the future, and that paywalls will work eventually. "[Free content] will end because now so many people are used to paying for applications, whether they pay 99 cents or whether they pay for a tune, or they pay 99 cents to play Solitaire, or $4.95 to do this or $2.95 to do that, or one kind of one stop, very simple to do," Diller said.

Magazines have always promised advertisers a certain number of paying readers. Now the industry is moving toward another guarantee: that its ads will work.

Concern the the Google-AAP settlement gives Google an unfair advantage wrt to orphan books and may inhibit scholarly access to these out-of-print works.

Why charging for online content won't work and some online revenue model suggestions.

Interesting. Not sure if I agree. What works for a one year old might not necessarily be what works for her the rest of her life. But who knows, that's the point, isn't it?

I find this interesting, as the company I work for is currently hosting a Kickstarter,

Today, influencing is very important skill that everyone needs for the success. In the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Megan Colter, you will get to know about your own style and will be able to learn skills to influence others and the people you work with.

Dec. 12 at 11am - Copyright & Commerce: Orphan Works and Fair Use in a Digital Age. Event is at the Newseum.

The Chinese bestsellers are about work. Interesting article.

Thomas Pynchon was one of the last great holdouts: the rare writer who had refused to allow his work to be sold in e-book format. Now he's changed his mind.

Seth Godin takes a novel approach to self-publishing - thinking about promotion and distribution at the beginning of the process - and finds funding through KickStarter.