Noisy Lovemaking No Cause for Eviction
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Noisy lovemaking is no cause for eviction - so long as it's done in the daytime, a Swedish landlord said Thursday.
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Talent isn't required, but screams, cheers  and lots of gyrations are.
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By -- Dave Larsen  Men may rule the roost, but women and children typically have run of the house. Consequently, guys are forced to reclaim their private territory in uninhabitable parts of the home.
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TORONTO (CP) - Kathleen Fremont is a proud Canadian, but Sunday there will be no fireworks lit, no singing and no parties at her house.
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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I OWN a flat in the Merchant City and my next-door neighbour rents her property. She is always having groups of friends round, and holding loud parties, and despite my requests to quieten down, she has done nothing about it.
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Laura Bekke moved into her new  Amsterdam flat last week and declined to have a fixed phone  line installed. Merijn Groenhart, a disc jockey in the same  city, has lived without a home phone for over a year.
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By Eric Russell, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 8--ELLSWORTH -- The city's planning board has turned down a Lamoine couple's proposal to build two four-unit apartment buildings on land they own in an Ellsworth neighborhood.
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Recording secret videos of sex with your partner is not illegal, Italy's supreme court has ruled.
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OAKLAND -- A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Oakland homeowners against the city's fire tax assessment district.   Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch last week ruled there was "good cause" to throw out the lawsuit.
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By Anthony Mccartney, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 7--TAMPA -- Facing a standing-room-only crowd, county commissioners postponed a decision Wednesday on an ordinance that independent trash haulers say would put them out of business.
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By Martha Hardcastle Contributing Writer  BEAVERCREEK -- In some ways, Natural Solutions Cleaning Services has no competition in the carpet cleaning business.
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When Laura Beck and Greg Pitts realized their marriage was falling apart, one thing was clear: They would work together to maintain a loving, supportive environment for their young son, Ethan. In June 2002, the couple had moved from Austin, Texas, to EcoVillage at Ithaca, an "intentional community" in central New York where environmentally friendly neighbors share space, meals, chores and generally look out for each other.
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MIAMI Aug. 30, 2004 - There was no Madonna-Britney Spears kiss, no partially-clad Howard Stern coming down from the rafters, and certainly no wardrobe malfunctions.
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Animals living at writer's former home avoid eviction after a legal battle.
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By FRANK ELTMAN GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - It's what kids do: Squeal in delight when they're having fun. But to some Long Island residents, those squeals are unwelcome noise and they want two neighborhood girls to pipe down when they're playing in their backyard pool.
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Singer Courtney Love pleaded not  guilty on Wednesday to charges of assault stemming from an  April incident in which she is alleged to have thrown a whiskey  bottle in the face of a woman asleep in the Los Angeles home of  her ex-boyfriend.