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danbloom

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Danny Bloom is a global citizen who helped midwife, er, midhusband, Jim Laughter's new cli fi novel titled POLAR CITY RED, now for sale worldwide, google the title to find ordering info. In the distant future—some say the near future—North America, northern Asia and Europe will see millions of climate refugees from southern lands trekking northward, and the entire Lower 48 might be under threat from the devastating impacts of “climate chaos” —from rising sea levels to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and shelter. Polar City Red is set in an imagined Alaska in the year 2075. But it could just as well be Tokyo or Oslo or Berlin. Global warming is borderless, and so are our fears. “A thought experiment that might prod people out of their comfort zone on climate.” —New York Times “Planning a good retreat is always a good measure of generalship. The retreat will be toward the poles.” —New York Times “We cannot regard the future of the civilized world in the same way as we see our personal futures. The planet may have already passed the tipping point on global warming. Is it already too late? Are the well-intentioned preservation campaigns just feel-good window dressing?” —James Lovelock, CBE, FRS, author of Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (2000) “We’re seeing the collapse of the Arctic sea ice. This year (2011) alone, planet Earth lost an area of Arctic sea ice twice the size of British Columbia. The impact on the entire global climate system will be enormous—the Arctic sea ice is the canary in the coal mine, and the canary is almost dead.” —Dr. Michael Byers, Professor of Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia

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Salon.com
AUGUST 27, 2010 10:06PM

Famous "Desiderta" poem in public domain, no copyright!

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Shock news: there is no copyright for the famous Desiderata! Anyone can make a poster or song of it and keep the profits. See the hundreds of YouTube videos now. And Les Crane was sued in 1970s for making CD, will he get money back now? Legal eagles want to know. Who knew?

To wit: The copyright concerns are no longer an issue, according to Jo Kline Cebuhar, an Iowa attorney who uses “Desiderata” in a soon-to-be-released book, “So Grows the Tree: Creating an Ethical Will.”

During World War II, Max Ehrmann (1872-1945), author of the Desiderata of 1927 allowed a friend – Army psychiatrist Dr. Merrill Moore – to hand out more than 1,000 copies of the poem to his soldier-patients, free of charge and without any stamp of the copyright Ehrmann had rightfully secured in 1927. In 1976, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Ehrmann had basically forfeited the copyright by allowing Dr. Moore to freely distribute “Desiderata” without copyright notations.

“It’s absolutely public domain,” Cebuhar said.

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I'm damn glad we got that cleared up. Thanks~
IF...IT's...TRUE.....i am not sure..... but a reporter for a paper in Indiana says it's true. is it?