Last Friday, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered that the first and most famous verse of the Civil Rights era anthem "We Shall Overcome" belongs in the public domain. Plaintiffs in the case had asked ...

Procrastination is the absence of progress. We all make resolutions, but only 8 percent succeed. The rest will get caught in the gap between intention and action — they fail to launch. Procrastination ...

A federal judge ruled (PDF) on Friday that the most famous verse of the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” is not copyrighted. The ruling is a decisive, but still incomplete, win for the two ...

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