12 novembro 2002

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Weblogs and Journals on World AIDS Day 2002: Participate
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2nd Circuit Revives Attempt to End Comic Copyright: Deciding a case of first impression, the court found that comic creator Joseph H. Simon's settlement agreement with a comic book company, in which he acknowledged he devised the character Captain America while working for hire, does not prevent him from terminating the company's copyright under the act.
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Booker winner in war of words: Booker Prize-winner Yann Martel has found himself at the centre of a literary row after a Brazilian author accused him of borrowing heavily from one of his books for the award-winning Life Of Pi. [...]
"I saw a premise that I liked and I told my own story," Martel said, adding: "I don't feel I've done something dishonest."
But Martel also said it was an established tradition in the literary world for writers to draw inspiration from the works of others.
"Is an idea copyrightable? That's certainly not my feeling. What would be wrong is if I said it was my idea," Martel said.
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AOL discs returned to sender: A campaign to collect one million AOL CDs has got off to a good start.
The two Californian men who kicked off the campaign have now gathered more than 80,000 of the promotional discs.
The campaign is intended to tell the company about the damage the discs do to the environment when discarded, and shame it into curbing its zealous promotional efforts.
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Sperm quality differs among U.S. regions: A study has found the quality of semen significantly poorer in men from rural mid-Missouri than in males from urban areas, and its authors believe agricultural chemicals might explain the difference.
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Hollywood reporter: ...To be continued
Why franchises are the future of cinema. [...] These are movies that you have seen before and that you will see again, each time under slightly different titles or, more likely, under different digits.
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An argument about beauty by Susan Sontag