Oh the irony. This afternoon I just sent a DMCA takedown letter to “cease and desist” publishing my content to a Mr. Jerry Martin, who identifies himself as the person running the content aggregator portal at http://copyright.inventionanswers.com/?p=1986, where a complete verbatim copy of the RSS feed for the article below showed up online, less than [...]

Some article copy never ages. Here’s a great article from 1996 by Frederick J. Beste on the 50-50 Ownership Deathtrap, the Three Musketeers Deathtrap, the Big Fish Swallows Little Fish Deathtrap, and 22 other things Not To Do when you are starting up. It’s a checklist of failure events. 1996, you say? Yes, it’s from [...]

Michigan’s Proposed Sales Tax on Services: A Whole New Reporting Headache As part of her effort to balance the state’s budget, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has proposed a new 2% sales and use tax on services. This tax would be collected in the same manner as the existing 6% sales and use tax for goods: [...]