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Horror writer Stephen King discovered this when he tried to embrace the medium by releasing a book exclusively online in instalments. But the experiment backfired when King halted it after just six chapters were published, saying people had been unprepared to pay for things they usually just took for free. It seems people are not prepared to give up their beloved books to read from a screen or pages of print outs.
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ACCORDING TO THE U.S. Copyright Office, "copyright" refers to a form of protection provided by U.S. law to the authors of "original works of authorship" including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and other intellectual rights. The owner of copyrighted material generally has the exclusive right to authorize such things as reproducing, distributing and displaying the work.
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This means that as soon as you finish a poem, novel or article, you automatically own the copyright and it's yours until you sell or license it to someone else, or until the period of protection ends.
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But by giving notice of your copyright--and registering your work on a regular basis--you'll help prevent it from being stolen or misappropriated in the future. Better yet, it will give you an effective weapon to use against violators if you need to.
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The Booklet also has integrated Bluetooth, GPS, a webcam and an SD card reader. Nokia claims it has a 12-hour battery life.
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"The presence of this internal wireless modem is why the Booklet 3G is a natural extension to Nokia's traditional phone handset product range."
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"A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility," said Kai Oistamo, Nokia's executive vice president for devices.
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The Booklet has an aluminium case, weighs 1.25 kilograms (2.75 lbs) and its 10-inch screen is HD-ready.
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Mr Fogg said the Booklet's unique selling point was an "internal mobile broadband card with a SIM slot." "Other netbooks rely on external USB mobile broadband modems for Internet access," he wrote on his blog.
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The Windows-based device is about 2cm thick and will offer 3G connectivity as well as wi-fi.
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The new scheme aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals
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Such videos are typically by individual users; the more entertaining among them get posted in many other places and as a result get a rapidly growing number of views.
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For instance, Lauren Luke of northeast England began posting make-up tips on YouTube in 2007. She was approached to become an advertising partner and now the hobby has become her main source of income.
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The Partner Program will start in the US, and YouTube says it plans an international version soon.
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and have helped many people earn thousands of dollars a month as their videos went viral and endured over time," YouTube product manager Shenaz Zack said in the post.
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the Business Software Alliance is a "far less unpopular organization" than the RIAA. I think the answers are quite illuminating. First, BSA's members have always offered their products for sale to the public, through any channel that wants to sell them. Second, BSA's members are consumer-oriented; they try to develop products that respond to consumers' needs, and not, the reverse: focusing on what they want to sell to consumers.
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It is true that there have in the past been complaints about the music industry from the public and retailers -- retailers, almost all of whom have been driven out of business. These complaints are though about poor business practices, not business practices. The complaints aren't that the record industry is a business, but that it has been poorly run as a business.
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The CD is not a fair fight with the download.
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Third, because consumers can easily purchase BSA's members products, those who copy without paying are simply scofflaws. I think the fact that the public does not object to BSA's campaign proves my point and disproves yours and the music industry's: people do not want things for free; they are willing to pay for them. If people were simply thieves, then they would have an even stronger reaction against the BSA because the price spread between copying and buying is so much vaster than with music.
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