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Fran Lebowitz Calls Out her Twitter Impersonators — and Jack Dorsey

Trusting Social Media, “Big Tech” to Police Itself. Not. Fran Lebowitz: I met [Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey], and I told him that [people were impersonating me on Twitter]. And I said, “you have to fix this because it’s not fair that someone pretends to be me, and people are talking to this person or tweeting...
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Everything On This Blog is Copied From Ross Kaplan

Stealing From “City Lakes Real Estate” Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery . . . but copying verbatim (plagiarizing) is illegal! That appears to be exactly what something or someone called “Dirk Isabelle’s Blog” is doing to “City Lakes Real Estate.” I’ve been advised by a local attorney that simply locating the offending...
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Everything On This Blog is Copied From Ross Kaplan

Stealing From “City Lakes Real Estate” Note to Readers: imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery . . . but copying verbatim (plagiarizing) is illegal! That appears to be exactly what something called “Dirk Isabelle’s Blog” is doing to “City Lakes Real Estate.” I’ve been advised by a local attorney that simply locating the...
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“The Napster Precedent”: Putting Sugar in Democracy’s Gas Tank?

[Editor’s Note:  The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway (“Berkshire”), or any other entity referenced. Edina Realty is a subsidiary of Berkshire.] Napster — the copyright infringing, file-sharing, early Internet darling of the ’90’s — may have deserved to die.  See, “copyright infringement.” But,...
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“How Come It’s Spelled, ‘Crackerjax?'”

Some Minnesota fathers teach their sons how to hang dry wall and hunt (or so I’m told). Me? I can explain why the Amusement Park is named “Crackerjax,” not “Crackerjacks” — or at least have a pretty good educated guess. Which is, if they named it “Crackerjacks,” they’d get sued for copyright infringement.
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"Hands Off My Content!"

Dear Visitor #65,431: What ‘Cha Up To?? It’s always nice to see healthy traffic on this blog; after two-plus years, “City Lakes Real Estate” now has a core group of regular readers, and gets several thousand page hits — from literally all the world — each month. In particular, it’s always nice to log on...
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