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		<title>Public Domain Patterns</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craftiness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but it seems way too many people are building websites based around &#8220;vintage&#8221; patterns without regard to copyrights and other niceties.
Too many crafters are simply assuming that the original copyright holder did not renew their copyright. Patterns published in the 1940s and 50s are not necessarily out of copyright. It all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Score 1 for The Good Guys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Web Savvy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can make that! I wrote that! My daughter wrote that, ain&#8217;t she smart?
It seems like an endless battle to fight the scammers, thieves and other no-good-knicks that STEAL from others. 
Just when I thought I had gotten the content theft occurring on my Foods Not Safe for Pets article under control, I found yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright, DMCA and Other Ugliness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Web Savvy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet sense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. Spend enough time and effort on something that you publish online and sooner or later someone, somewhere is going to help themselves to your hard work.
Granted, many bloggers do not understand that taking something they found online and posting it on their own site or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act</title>
		<link>http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/the-consumer-product-safety-improvement-act.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craftiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Crafts in Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Crafts on the Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[protecting your business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;this possibly can’t be true files&#8221;, it appears that in about a month anyone buying, selling or manufacturing products designed for small children is going to find themselves in a morass of new legal requirements that the spokeswoman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission called a “sticky and tricky” new law.
One could suppose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Twenty Million Dollar Blog Entry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Web Savvy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever had a bad experience with a company? I know I have. And I wanted to tell the whole world just how bad my experience was. In the past, I would tell my friends and family about the company and suggest they find another company to deal with. When I had my last apartment I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect Yourself When Getting Your Computer Fixed</title>
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		<comments>http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/protect-yourself-when-getting-your-computer-fixed.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen this? Woman Sues Best Buy For $54 Milliion!
To make a long story short, a customer brought her laptop in for repairs and it took Best Buy 6 months and at least a dozen phone calls to finally admit that not only did her machine never leave the store, someone stole it. Best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What should I call them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Crafts in Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[product descriptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling crafts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You just got a windfall of crafting supplies. A friend of a friend knows you craft and a bag or box of goodies has found its way to your workshop. But, what to do when the mystery items are unmarked or the labels are suspicious in their validity?
Such a dilemma came up for a crafter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you competing with yourself?</title>
		<link>http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/are-you-competing-with-yourself.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/are-you-competing-with-yourself.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Crafts in Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protecting your business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you underselling yourself and breaking your contract? It&#8217;s so easy to do and you might not even realize that you are doing it. When you have a piece in a gallery, under consignment, or in a craft mall; do you sell it on your own website or in person too? Do you charge the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Your Brand</title>
		<link>http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/protecting-your-brand.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/protecting-your-brand.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet sense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Came across an interesting article on Domain Names and Branding. The author makes reference to a recent article in Inc. Magazine that discusses the battle between two small companies and two giant companies who have branded similar sounding domain names.
The original article mainly talks about the legal issues involved and does tend to make the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returns &amp; Exchanges</title>
		<link>http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/returns-exchanges.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/returns-exchanges.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crafty Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[craft site content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protecting your business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling crafts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It absolutely drives me crazy when I have to beg for information about a business. Whether online or off, when I buy something I want to know if I can return or exchange it. This is particularly true when the item is sized, has multiple parts, or requires electric or batteries to make it work. [...]]]></description>
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