Elwood, as I discovered via Google, had co-authored a book a decade before he died: Reflections of a Warrior : Six Years as a Green Beret in Vietnam, by Franklin D. The book was the autobiography of a Congressional Medal of Honor winner whom Elwood met while stationed in Seoul. Cindy Kureth just wants a job and a place to call home. MORE >>

Robert Randolph, who wrote the book “You’ll Never Spa In This Town Again” is suing John Travolta and Martin Singer for trade libel based on statements Singer made on behalf of Travolta about Randolph in a letter to Gawker. The Gawker letter arose in response to Randolph’s book which chronicled Travolta’s alleged sexual exploits. MORE >>

million in revenue the two sites — EasyDownloadCenter.com and TheDownloadPlace.com — generated from 2003 to 2005, $809,000 was paid to Google for advertising , the people said. For example, if it could be shown that Google had not changed its rogue site strategy since 2003, the FTC might find that an interesting fact. MORE >>

The concept probably started with–wait for it–Lawrence Lessig–in his 2003 New York Times op ed “ Protecting Mickey Mouse at Art’s Expense “   (This from someone with little to do with either Mickey Mouse or art.)  This did not work out so well with Google Books. ” I thought not. Lofgren, right?  MORE >>

Tolkien's 1937 novel, The Hobbit , and were later in his The Lord of the Rings book trilogy, and the basis for the hit movie trilogy Lord of the Rings , which earned $3 billion dollars at the box office. Wells' The War of the Worlds , which was released the same year as Steven Spielberg's film based on the same 1898 public domain book. MORE >>