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JK Rowling Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Fan

As NowPublic reported earlier this year, author JK Rowling filed a lawsuit against Steven Vander Ark for his attempt to publish a fan-created, but unauthorized, Harry Potter encyclopedia.Today it was announced...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Dictionary adds new words

Board (bored?) gamers wanting to improve their Balderdash skills will want to check out the new words being added to the dictionary this year. There's about a hundred of them, many of which pertain to cooking for...

created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Unions: Picking the Manufacturing Corpse Clean

Barry Artiste

Canadian Labour Unions: Have given up the fight?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor More aptly put should be "The Death Knell of North American Labour Unions" are due partly by past greed for higher wages and benefits for it's workers. Greed...

created by Barry Artiste | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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JK Rowling Bashes 'Fan-Created' Harry Potter Encyclopedia

Proprietary much? Shouldn't as successful an author as JK Rowling feel gratified that fans are spending their own time and energy to produced their own compendia of spells, essays, facts, figures, and words...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Wiki elevated to Oxford English Dictionary

As the English language evolves, certain words of foreign or Frankensteinian origin find themselves part of their daily use. The Oxford English Dictionary: Like the Hollywood Walk of Fame, only for words. "It's official: "wiki" is now a fully-fledged member of the English...