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While a number of other German cities collect taxes from prostitutes working in brothels, Bonn became the first city to extend general prostitution taxes to workers soliciting clients on the street when it introduced the sex meters last August, according to the AFP.
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Germany legalized prostitution in 2002 as part of an effort to regulate the financial working conditions of prostitutes, Francesca McCaffery explained in The Utopianist.
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“It is commendable, certainly, for these governments to work to improve and legitimatize the life of a prostitute. But sex workers continue to be ostracized, exploited, and abused,” McCaffrey wrote in The Utopianist. “Perhaps … prostitution will continue to become more legitimized, better tolerated, and better understood. Until then, others continue to fear that the laws help mask a harsh reality that persists beyond a veneer of legality.”

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… They tell me to get my old ass off the mic, but every time my old ass gets on stage I put on a hell of a show!” So promises Too $hort, the godfather of Bay Area hip-hop who’ll be hitting Brooklyn this Thursday and Friday for shows at the Knitting Factory. The back-to-back gigs mark $hort Dog’s solo Big Apple stage debut; with a discography that harks back to 1985’s Don’t Stop Rappin’ and a spell before that crafting custom songs for local customers, the East Oakland-raised, pimp-styled icon has a rap stash that runs deeper than most. But as a West Coast pioneer, Too $hort hasn’t always been so readily accepted in hip-hop’s heartland. In the run-up to his inaugural NYC shows, we got $hort to look back on his early days dealing with East Coast elitism, bantering with cynical Manhattan bellhops, and being told by Biggie that he was kinda like a big deal in Brooklyn.

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Recent cases, involving such diverse subjects as virtual art galleries,[4] sex toys,[5] stun guns,[6] strip clubs,[7] horses and bunnies,[8] and furniture,[9] highlight the legal issues and differences between virtual reality and real life infringement cases.  A review of these cases gives one insights with respect to protecting intellectual property assets in the world of avatars.
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In a case involving the protection of the trademark and trade dress of a real-world strip club and whether a virtual depiction in the video game “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” infringed the real Los Angeles strip club’s logo and exterior design trademark rights,[20] the Ninth Circuit held that such use did not infringe the actual club owner’s trademark and trade dress because the video game was “artistic” and protected by the First Amendment. The court noted that the Lanham Act applies to artistic works only where the public interest in avoiding consumer confusion outweighs the public interest in free expression.[21] First Amendment protection was afforded because “a reasonable consumer would not think a co …

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Charles Dingle, now 53, was charged and convicted in the April 1983 crime spree made famous by the New York Post headline.
Parole has been denied for an inmate whose crime inspired the sensational 1983 tabloid headline ”Headless body in topless bar”.
A parole board says it would be dangerous to release 53-year-old Charles Dingle due to his ”continued poor behaviour” and ”disturbing criminal history.”
The decision came after a videoconference hearing from a western New York prison.
Dingle was convicted of shooting Queens bar owner Herbert Cummings, taking four women hostage, raping one and ordering another to cut off Cummings’ head. He is serving 25 years to life for murder, robbery, rape and kidnapping. In 2010 he told the New York Post he didn’t do it. The famous headline ran on the New York Post’s cover.

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… New York state authorities denied parole to the man convicted of the crime that generated one of the most famous headlines in US journalism: the New York Post’s “Headless body in topless bar.”
The parole board denied early release for Charles Dingle, 53, convicted of the 1983 rampage in which he fatally shot the owner of a topless bar, took hostages, raped a woman and forced another to cut off the dead man’s head in order to prevent police from linking the bullet to his gun.
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The headline provided the title for the book “Headless Body in Topless Bar: The Best Headlines from America’s Favorite Newspaper.”
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By Friday morning, at least one of the editions carried the banner front-page headline “Headless body in topless bar,” and a legend was born.
Musetto’s headline also provided the title for the book “Headless Body in Topless Bar: The Best Headlines from America’s Favorite Newspaper.”

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