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The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…
The Fall of the House of Usher (La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French silent horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/664095545…

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Podcasting "Take It Back": My Medium column on copyright termination and rights reversion.



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If you're lucky enough to have stable employment and good credit, you're living cheap. Poverty is far more expensive than affluence. Take check-cashing: even the sleaziest bank doesn't charge you to give it money - but what if you don't have a bank account?

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By now, you've likely heard about the #PandoraPapers - the landmark reporting on financial secrecy havens, corruption, and the hidden wealth brought to you by the @ICIJorg and its 140 media partners worldwide.

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Like so many, I started reading @fakedansavage for prurient kicks - every week, I'd pick up @nowtoronto and check the club listings, movie reviews, municipal scandal reporting, and then I'd look around the subway car before turning to his Savage Love column.

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4 Oct
This week on my podcast, I read "Take It Back," my @medium essay, "Take it back: Copyright reversion, bargaining power, and authors’ rights," all about the obscure, but increasingly exciting realm of copyright termination at reversion.

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