I wonder if anyone else has noticed!
Listening to the news and reading the various media reports from the UK, Europe, and the USA, the politicians’ proposed solution to the world’s economic crisis is to encourage the banks and the public to revert to exactly the same behaviour that led, with a horrible inevitability, to […]
Recent news shows that the US automobile industry is asking the US federal government for a $25 billion bailout and President-Elect Barak Obama supports this. What a pity that Mr Obama should nail his colours to the mast so early and on such an issue. Bailing out the big three carmakers is a fundamentally flawed […]
On a recent trip to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, I was unsurprised to discover that the city has little or no public transport and the preferred (and possibly the only affordable) method of transport are the ubiquitous Honda oms – the 125 cc cross between a genuine motor scooter and a small motorbike. […]
In simple terms, authors own all the rights (Intellectual Property Rights or Copyright) to their published and unpublished work and they generally receive their income from royalties that are paid by those to whom the author has issued a licence for use of certain rights (the publisher). So far, so good!
In a perfect world, the […]