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Casino Ponderings

April 14, 2008

In Detroit, we have several casino resorts, and Michigan also has a number of tribal casinos hosted on the allegedly sovereign land of the extant native-American tribes. Sometimes you’ll hear an ad for the Casino resorts or their vacation packages, or their night clubs, but I’ve yet to hear an ad or a commercial for [...]

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No Third Solution

April 12, 2008

People are starting to google “no third solution,” so maybe my blog is becoming more popular. My traffic doesn’t seem to show any upward trend, unfortunately… I get about 1,500 unique visits per month, according to awstats which I use in addition to Google Analytics to track that sort of thing. I [...]

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State Evicts Man From Land Nobody Owns

April 10, 2008

In a Seattle suburb, there was a man who lived in a tree on a vacant lot. He lived alone, bothered pretty much nobody, and nursed sick and injured squirrels back to health. All of that changed recently, when the State ordered him to tear down the hand-made shelter in which he had [...]

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Is Resale a Copyright Infringement?

April 9, 2008

In reference to this techdirt article, Kip asks:
Is it a violation of copyright to sell a used book? Is it extortion to threaten to sue over it? (”I think [a] number in the high seven figures will be fair enough for me to suddenly catch amnesia.”)
Of course it’s not a violation of copyright to [...]

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Posted in: Legalese, Rent Seeking | 3 Comments