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...Making Scandals Add Up to Reform Faster than a plunging Enron share, tougher than a bear market, the U.S. Congress last week whisked through the biggest changes to business oversight in 60 years, creating harsh penalties for fraud and an independent board to regulate accounting. But the legislation is silent on one controversial accounting trick, treating stock options as expenses when companies do their taxes but not when they report profits. It's a sleight-of-hand, critics say, at the heart of many recent corporate scandals. "CEOs have paid themselves huge amounts through stock options to wreck their companies...
Yankee Stadium roared, and those wearing Red Sox jerseys sat, silent and stunned. Everyone sensed the beginning of the end had arrived...
...arrange-ments by the Planets, he was careful to credit the ori-ginal composers. He even titled the minute's silence that preceded the bonus tracks One Minute's Silence and credited it to Batt/Cage - a cheeky reference to the late avant-garde composer, right, John Cage's famous, silent work of 1952, 4' 33". Cage's publisher, Peters Edition, got the joke but filed for a share of the copyright dues anyway. While Batt was still "in hysterics", his label, EMI, had already coughed up a first installment of €460 to them. Batt wants it back, denies...
Lawsuits over "digital rights" have swelled court dockets as artists and publishers disagree over who controls a new medium when an old contract is silent. Since the advent of film and then TV, each technological advance has caused a scramble to define ownership. But the issue has taken on heightened importance as new venues for copyrighted works increase the potential revenue from popular characters and stories. Characters can now be franchised from a book to a film and could eventually exist continuously on television, video, DVD and the Internet...
...espionage game once spawned plenty of cool spy gear, like poison-tipped umbrellas and recording devices disguised as ballpoint pens. But it's all getting so low-rent. Corporate spies are now using ordinary cell phones as cheap eavesdropping devices. Phones switched to idle and silent mode and set to answer calls automatically can be "accidentally" left behind in an office?when a spook excuses himself from a meeting to use the bathroom, for example?and activated remotely from another handset, allowing the user to listen in without the occupants' knowledge. The scam is more cunning than it sounds...