Given that, in most countries, copyright is essentially created the moment information transfers from your brain onto paper without needing any kind of registration, what happens if Mr. Unscrupulous REGISTERS a work as his own creation with the copyright office that was actually created by Mr. Honest?

The copyright belongs to Mr. Honest but is registered to Mr. Unscrupulous.

Mr. Honest has no absolute proof that he created the work first but Mr. Unscrupulous had an official...

Have a look at http://www.promocodesecrets.com directly under the sign-up box.

It's obviously designed to counter bullshit e-mails in the sign-up-and-redirect process.

Is it wise to do what's being done on that site?

Well, if visitors are going to going to give fake e-mails anyway, why not?

After being amazed for the last time to see otherwise very-intelligent people finish sentences as if they had collapsed and died on their keyboard's full-stop ('period', for the Yanks) button, as well as being shocked by a recommendation in a book about writing headlines that said "Use dots!", I would like to point out, for those who don't alredy know, that the "dots" are called ellipses and there are only 3 of them (with no spaces)!

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With all the great marketing products floating about, it's easy to forget the "old ways".

Despite writing it over 7 years ago, I never thought to produce a small free report to promote a bad breath product that I sell on Clickbank until early last year.

When I finally "got round to it" (my favourite excuse), I produced a tiny (1 page) article and a wee screenshot of my salespage at the end, all compiled into a PDF.

I only put it in the...

I used to wonder how people got those at the top of their fields to endorse their publications and now I've found out.

It turns out there is no 'Old Boys Network' that slap each others back... nor do you have to sell your first-born.

Here's what I did:

"Hello XXX, my name is Tommy. I wrote the Bad Breath Report. It's about stopping bad breath. Here's a copy. What do you think?"

And I got back a wealth of comments, recommendations,...