What is the job of the Federal Trade Commission? Would you believe it if someone told you that one of their jobs was to advocate for competition before the courts and other government entities.

It makes sense that someone ought to stand up for the fundamentals of free enterprise and free markets, yet the FTC? Why, as it appears to me that all they do is attack businesses to gain fees and fines to supplement their yearly budgets.

Recently the FTC has put into an official US Congressional report and budget request that this advocating endeavor at the FTC and pro-competition stance was among other reasons a point in favor of an increased 2007 FY budget for the agency. The Federal Trade Commission stated in the official report;

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Copyright laws are something that we don’t think about often when we are blogging or updating our status on Facebook. If you own a website, you own the intellectual content within your website including text, pictures, and even the design (if you created it). You also have fair use rights, which empower you to quote or use excerpts of content from another source. Giving a link and credit to the source does NOT actually mean you have permission though, and the law is actually rather vague. But we in the web world and I would suspect even the ink and paper publishing world, would say if you quote a small piece of material from an article like:

“The distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission. Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission.”

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Situated strategically between two underground stations, Earl’s Court and West Brompton, the Earls Court Exhibition Center is a large complex consisting of two halls: Earls Court One, and Earls Court Two. In addition to these halls, there is the Olympia halls located nearby. All these exhibition halls are operated by EC&O Venues.

Earls Court originally started off as a waste land, but after the railroads were built, the land was used to stage outdoor shows, including Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. The first hall was built circa 1935, and then the second followed in 1991. Earls Court Two is a huge exhibition hall, with floor space totaling 17,000 square meters. This extraordinarily large hall hasn’t a single column marring its floor space!

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