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Hall and Oates own a company that owns their music. A second company, Primary Wave, bought a majority of their catalogue and wants the rest. They in turn can take an old song sell it on an advertisement and make money, get money for covers, resell under another artist like Weird Al, pay Hall and Oates limited revenue. The lawsuit is Hall doesn't want Oates to sell his part of the company to Primary Wave. He wants to keep as much of the catalogue as he can. Oates (after consultation with his wife and manager) wants to sell to get the money.

If Oates sells his stake, Primary Wave can tell Hall what to do with his own music, pay him less of a revenue from greatest hits and streams, sell off Hall's music to a third party (or their however much they own).

This is kind of like a takeover by buying out a partner. At least it's not Hall accusing Oates of plagirizing himself like John Fogarty.

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Still working, below the 20k mark. The goblin tree arc is almost over. I think I need to come up with something for the date night, and then Mr Warner. I don't know what I am going to do right now.

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5 hours ago, Cygnia said:

The Freedom Fighters and the Invaders. This is cool.

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I got it down to 26k. Right now, I plan to finish the goblin tree arc for Dial H. Then do the date night. Then have Mr. Warner show up to give some advice on things. Jack making the Enterprise D is up there with things that he should have thought about more, but at least one of his patrons will be happy. Then maybe I will do a Society visit. I have almost three hundred K invested in this so far.

Thanks Hermit for the advice.

I need to switch around more like I used to do, but right now I have a flow sort of thing going on, so I am going to go with it before switching back to Million Words and Hodgepodge.

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How long is Marvels going to be in the theater? It's already made half of its budget in one week.

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Need 33k to finish the race. 6 five k days with a three k day remainder.

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It probably didn't help that the guy playing Kang is in legal trouble. That probably forced the production part to sit down and say we are going to need someone new and move away from the time travel parts for a while until we can get the FF up and running

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Rumor is someone tried to kidnap/carjack Biden's granddaughter. He escaped the secret service trying to punch holes through him.

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I need 7 5k days. Dial H is at the point where Jo and Fass's FIghters are going to splinter cell the enemy government in the next few chapters

The Nano forums shut down because apparently one of the mods was abusing the kids in the young writers program. Complaints have been filed and the board that runs the nonprofit have put everything on hold until they have things sorted out. There are 800 replies in the public thread talking about this.

Didn't know about any of this. I am an adult and don't use the program or deal with anything there on the forums.

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Apparently the people who run the Nano got a lot of complaints and shut down the board while they are fielding things. 

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lost a follower. replicating the Enterprise D was a step too far.

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need 37k. Jack did not Spectre a country

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19 hours ago, death tribble said:

I love the Head of Vecna story. I first read of it in the Knights of the Dinner Table.

 

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The Beatles have topped  the charts again. 60 years after they first did. With a new song.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67381253

It's a fairly decent song too. Radio lady said Yoko Ono and Peter Jackson made it happen.

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I have about ten k. I am going to try to write some more Dial H as Jack decides if he wants to Spectre a country.

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Farron Cousins said he was amazed that large media is not covering the fact that Trump admitted he committed fraud on the stand. The prosecutor asked him if he knew what the numbers did. He was like we moved them up and down as needed. it should be in the transcript if anyone here can get a copy.

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Finished Ben Tennyson Studies Magic. Ben and Levin arrest Marty Hacks for parole violation and lets the ADA set up a plea deal which Ben sweetens by telling Hacks that he knows who really killed his sister and he had went around and killed five innocent men for nothing. Hacks agrees to the deal for that information.

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8 hours ago, Hermit said:

Today, we let our dog pass out of pain and out of this world. So I've not gotten any real writing done and not sure I will today.

Sorry, Hermit.

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Wrote a chapter for Dial H as Jack and Josie try to prevent the coming of the Lich Queen and one for Ben Ten as Ben and Levin arrest Marty Hacks for violating his parole and trying to steal the refurbished water tank his sister died in. Can they make him confess to the murder they think he committed?

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Moving slow. I need to do errand and then work. Then I need to buckle down and finish the chapter for Dial h with a magical surgery.

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Wrote a thou. Started later than intended then drama with the wife's dogs at 3 am.  Will try to do better tonight. Only need 5k a day to get done in ten days. Ghost Angel used to do that all the time.

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21 hours ago, Cancer said:

they have been doing this in call of duty for a couple of years.

What is that? Double claymore on a drone? FUUUU.... boom

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I have never heard of either one of these but today I have made my quotient of learning something new. Thank you very much.

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I dreamed I was at work. I was taking food out of the oven and sending it down the line to be chopped up and packaged by the people I work with.

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The fact of the matter is Bob Iger stepped down and he was the head of everything. He was replaced with Bob Choprak. Choprak didn't want multiple movie contracts, pay for the productions, and only cared about how much money the studio was making on the streaming end of things. He is the guy who lost the law suit from Scarlet Johannson (which I can't ever remember happening before this), and pissed off the people at Pixar. Chopak was the guy who gave the Inhumans to Perlmutter and Buck and watched them crash. Chopak installed a guy to basically tell the movie division they couldn't make movies. This joker lost almost two billion dollars on the streaming service in two years. Employees found out they might be laid off through the news.  

You want to know what happened? They hired a guy from their park division to run the company during a pandemic and he screwed up, picking guys that had no idea what they were doing. And all of them were forced out.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to censure Rep Rashida Tlaib for calling for a cease fire from Israel. Rep Becca Blaint filed a censure resolution on Greene for being a liar.

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