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We meet a lot of people who want to start a business but don’t know where to begin. Entrepreneurs with great ideas don’t always have good business sense, but they can acquire it (usually) – or find business partners who have it.

Before you plonk down the first month’s rent on a store front, or invest in any alleged money-making endeavor (especially if it eats), read the Starting a Business guides from the Oregon Corporation Division.

Other business start-up websites that are sometimes overlooked include ones you can find or link to from these:

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Owning the copyright is not enough. You have to protect it.

If you write books and publish them, in paper or online, through a publisher or by yourself, you need to learn how to protect your copyright interests. Let your imagination be your guide. Who would have envisioned these events? Don’t leave it to the science fiction and fantasy writers to imagine life, and publishing, in the future.

1) Google Book Settlement (See also the Guide for the Perplexed and posts at Library Law, here and here , click on googlebooksettlement in the Library Copyright cloud or at the ALA GBS site.)

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The Portland metro-area Landlord Training has set its Spring 2009 class dates. This is 8-hours of specialized training – and it’s free!

Excerpt: “Program Information: Since 1989, this nationally recognized program has taught over 13000 Portland-area owners and managers how to keep illegal activity out of rentals, maintain property in compliance with City maintenance regulations, and partner with City services/programs both to provide habitable housing and protect their residential property investment.

This program is constantly updated to current laws and issues, and has been adopted by over 400 cities and counties across the nation. The content of the course reflects in-depth research with organizations and individuals in police work, housing maintenance, property management, law, and public housing.

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Update: In case you haven’t heard (anyone?), the Oregon Courts will remain open on Fridays, except for Friday, March 13th, 2009. Stories about this are at all news outlets, radio, TV, newspaper, and online.

See the Legislature’s press release about this good news.

This good news also means regular access to county law libraries located in courthouses. Those of us not located in courthouses had planned to stay open despite the other closings.

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The very funny title leads into a very, very interesting blog post from BlawgIT. I love it also because it ties in with what law librarians say all the time:

Don’t Treat Your Law Librarian Like a Lawyer! Law librarians know and teach legal research. If you have a legal problem, ask a law librarian how to research it. If you want a solution to your legal problem, hire a lawyer!

But hear it from a lawyer:

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A post at the King County Law Library blog reminded me to update my own sidebar list of “Legal Research – Free” list with ALSO — see Legal Resources On-line: Check This Out:

“American Law Sources on-Line (ALSO) provides free legal resources online. This website includes information about law libraries, federal courts, bar associations, legal forms, and government websites….” (from KCLL Klues)

At WisBlawg, Bonnie talks about Archival Case Law Free with FindACase. The fine print isn’t necessarily a deal breaker, but you have to decide that.

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Two news articles that ran this week in the Oregonian shared a theme that I wish would carry through to another story I’ll tell in a separate blog post. Before getting to that, I’m talking about these two stories:

1) Multnomah County’s drug court faces budget ax, by Aimee Green, The Oregonian, Tuesday March 10, 2009

“A county department that funds a world-recognized drug rehabilitation program is offering to sacrifice it to help balance Multnomah County’s budget.

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I’ve been talking a lot lately with others about public sector blogging and I thought it might be useful to start posting about the issue.

(And, some of the best, and most productive, discussions I’ve had have been with the people at the Multnomah County Library who drafted these: a) Social Software Policy for Multnomah County Library Users and b) Blog Comment Guidelines)

Blogging issues that arise in the Public Sector World include technological, budget, practical, policy, politics, and literary ones, and, of course, legal questions and puzzles. I’m sure there are others, but one has to start somewhere.

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We are occasionally asked if we have police or sheriff’s inventory checklists of property seized. I suppose some libraries somewhere have printed checklists, but for the most part the general research rule is:

Each jurisdiction has its own procedure and you usually need to look in the code (the city code, county code, state police regulations, etc.). It is still important to look at the ORS and the OAR, just in case, and some local codes will refer back to these statewide codes.

For example, in the Washington County (Oregon) Code index (which is online), you find:

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May 2, 2009: Foreclosure Prevention Event at the Memorial Coliseum (Oregon)

If you haven’t quite grasped the magnitude of the foreclosure problem, notice that this is a foreclosure “event” (not a “meeting,” a “presentation,” or “seminar,” but a foreclosure EVENT) that is being held in the Memorial Coliseum, which has a seating capacity of over 12,000.

Save the Date:
Saturday, May 2
Come to a Foreclosure Prevention Event at the Memorial Coliseum
Sponsored by:
City of Portland
Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
For more info call (503) 823-3486

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