title: The Copyright Handbook: How to Protect & Use Written Works
author:  Stephen Fishman 
description: Providing forms and step-by-step instructions on such topics as transfer of copyright ownership, works for hire, fair use, and infringement, an updated edition offers copyright law guidance for writers, publishers, and educators. Original.
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  Field Decision
  
  by Ed Howdershelt
  
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  Copyright (c)2003 by Ed Howdershelt
  
  First published via Abintra Press
  
  Abintra Press
  
  www.abintrapress.tripod.com
  
  Fiction
  
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  *Chapter One*
  
  The Mercedes taxi threaded its way through swept-aside mounds of late-November
  slush and snow to halt at the curb in front of a turn-of-the-century style
  building near the center of the US Armed Forces Education branch of the
  Kaiserslautern Universitat campus. The tall stone wall and cyclone fencing
  around the compound made it obvious that access to the area was restricted to
  US military and o