KARR: Gamboa found lots of older versions of “We Shall Overcome.” The judge in the case had already stripped copyright from the song's first and most famous verse. After Gamboa's deposition, the music publishers backed down. Now that the song's in the public domain, Gamboa says, anyone can use
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The University of Houston-Victoria at Katy will host a signing of a novelization of Disney's “Coco” that was written by a UHV faculty member. Diana Lopez, a UHV associate professor of creative writing, will sign copies of her book, “Coco: A Story About Music, Shoes, and Family,” starting at 6 p.m.
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FOR MANY years, I had taught Dale Carnegie's famous book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936) in my undergraduate courses as a splendid example of modern self-help writing. Carnegie appeared as the 20th century counterpart of Benjamin Franklin and Horatio Alger, an author whose
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