Free Law Library

Okay so today I was looking online for a contract example for royalty usage. So I found www.Free-Lax-Library.us On their website it says:
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Okay so obviously it one of those survey things that you do, but it says:
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Please see our Terms and Conditions for the details of our DMCA (copyright) compliance program.


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a lawyer referral service.


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Okay basic disclaimer & I like the "if you see anything in our registration
process that seems to require a purchase or any financial transaction, please let
us know about it so we can take appropriate action. Thank you!"

Looks good right? It asks for my e-mail & I must 'check' a check-box to agree with their TOS &Private Policy.
I tend to be one of those people that will read ALL the fine print, so this is what I found:

Terms of Service (TOS)

1. "Use Of The Site
You are granted a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, revocable license (a) to access and use the Site
strictly in accordance with this Agreement; (b) to use the Site solely
for informational, personal, non-commercial, educational or
entertainment purposes; and (c) to print out discrete information from
the Site solely for such purposes and provided that you maintain all
copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein."

Wait what?!? "entertainment purposes" I think for the next 2 months I will read contracts for the fun of it.... ;P

2. "Restrictions On Use

Your license for access
and use of the Site and any information, materials or documents
(collectively, "Content") found on the Site are subject to the
following restrictions and prohibitions on use:

(i)
you may not copy, print (except for the express limited purpose
permitted by the section entitled "Use of the Site" above), republish,
display, distribute, transmit, sell, rent, lease, loan or otherwise
make available in any form or by any means all or any portion of the
Site or any Content retrieved from it;

(b) you may
not use the Site or any materials obtained from the Site to develop, of
as a component of, any information, storage and retrieval system,
database, information base, website, or similar resource (in any media
now existing or hereafter developed), that is offered for commercial
distribution of any kind, including through sale, license, lease,
rental, subscription, or any other commercial distribution mechanism;

(c) you may not create compilations or derivative works of any Content from the Site[...]"

(Re: Bolded words) If you using educational purposes, most likely you will be using it in a paper or of the sort... I can't imagine not going to this site for any other reason to use these contracts as a basis to create other works, & they say you can't do that. Well needless to say, I decided not to check the box.

Have fun reading for entertainment purposes...

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XM Radio Receiver vs XM Radio for PC

First a quick discussion about something I came up against.

I have the Pioneer AirWare portable XM receiver (looks like an overly large cell phone).



I thought about upgrading today when I saw the special on www.Woot.com for the newer version of the portable reciever by Pioneer the Inno1, much smaller, in color & better antenna...



BUT, it didn't come with a car kit (which is an additional $40 through www.MyRadioStore.com, which had I known that this morning, I might have bought it; I could only find the kit for $60.) The car kit is the ONLY way to enable the FM modulator, which is what I need since I have a CD player in my car & not a cassette deck. So I found something cheaper (not as convenient, but still cheaper) for less than $43, I found an external clip-on antenna for my AirWare and bought an armband for it as well. (It actually cost less than $30, but I 2nd day air-ed it :P) As I have mentioned before I am running in a half-marathon at the begging of next year, & I'd like to my XM radio along for the ride.

So back to the oginal topic of the PC version vs regular version - with my subscription (or anyones) you pay monthly to receive reception for you radio ($5-$13 or possibly cheaper with promo code). Also you have the ability to use the online player and play the music through their online player. So I am wonder why anyone would pay $65 for the PC kit, when you can buy a portable radio for less (or free) and still use the internet online player for the PC (it's what I do, since I don't get reception from where the only window in my apt. is.) I presume for people that have slow internet connection you might do this, but I'd save the money from the subscription & go with fater internet service & stream free internet radio through WMP or iTunes.

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Anywhere.FM

I just came across this really cool site recently. It's called Anywhere FM - http://Anywhere.FM
It's you music anywhere you go, which an internet connection that is, and these days, the internet is everywhere.
(To get the gist of this blog, skip down to Resolution)

First my spiel: I was trying to figure out how todo something like this to begin with. My idea was posting my song (up to 1GB) on BearSpace (which is my University's student web server) and then creating a streaming playlist in iTunes and carry the playlist around with me and just load it on any computer running iTunes. The problem came when the computer didn't have iTunes.

Resolution: Anywhere FM
You can upload your WHOLE library to their server. And wherever you are, you just go to the site and enter you login info and there's all your music, It's very easy. When you register it only asks a few questions and then you are ready to go. You can also download an uploader app that uploads your playlists and your songs from iTunes. (or yoou can manually do it from internet window itself.
Works on Mac OS and I presume Windows as well (it auto detects your operating system). It does not upload your iTunes purchases though, bummer (because iTunes has a special alogorithm to decode the purchased songs) you can always get around that, though....

Online Photo Printers

I have been looking for an online photo printer for a couple of months - not for professional use that is, but for pictures of friends & family. After much research I think I have finally found the best site:

Shutterfly.

Why? because their prints cost the same as Kodak with one exception - DISCOUNTS!

They have annual plans, pre-paid packages and what no that drop the print's costs drastically. For instance: a poster print (20" x 30") is $22.99 but using the annual plan it is $16.09, that's nearly $7 off the cost of the print. So how do you get the discounts? Well you pay an annual fee of $30...why pay for discount? Well I figure I'll be printing at least 5 poster prints in the next year, which allows me to "save" money.

Even if you were to go with medium sizes such as 11" x 14" (orig. $7.99) it would be $5.59 so on you 13th print you would start your saving right? Also the annual plan gives you a FREE photo album book ($30 value) so it's nearly free discounts! Right? Yes...maybe...the reason they do this is they believe most people will not buy that many prints in a year. So if you going to be doing larger prints, GO FOR IT! Smaller prints? you're better off doing the prepaid amount like (the best one I think) 400 4x6 photos for $56 ($0.14/photo) or you can go the 800 4x6 photo pre-paid plan which also includes a FREE photo album for $96 ($0.12/photo).

So see for yourself:

Plans Here

• Annual Plan
• Pre-paid plans
• Portrait pre-paid plans

The best way to compare, and most importantly, you want to see the photo quality, so I suggest you order 5-10 prints from different places and see what is best - besides Shutterfly, you can also try Kodak
HAVE FUN!

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