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petitioner wrote two manuals, Mrs. M.'s Quick & Easy Refund &
Rebate System and Mrs. M.'s Winning Sweepstakes System. Sometime
thereafter she placed a $5 advertisement in a coupon booklet for
persons interested in testing her systems and also made inquiries
with several publishers. Although no one was interested in
publishing her manuals, some people did respond to her
advertisement.
Petitioner copyrighted Mrs. M.'s Quick & Easy Refund &
Rebate System in 1984 and self-published both manuals in 1992
under a name and logo of her own design, $'s Info Books. It is
unclear from the record if and when Mrs. M.'s Winning Sweepstakes
System was copyrighted. Each manual is printed on 8 1/2 inch by
11 inch paper, one-sided, and spiral bound on the left side. The
refund and rebate guide is 15 pages in length, including an
inside cover page, table of contents, 2 pages of comments from
test marketers, and 2 pages of order forms. The sweepstakes
manual is nine total pages, including an inside cover page, two
pages of order forms, and two pages of comments from test
marketers.
In 1992, 1993, and 1994, petitioner generated publicity for
her manuals in the local print and broadcast media, and attended
a number of autograph parties at local bookstores, libraries, and
clubs. During those same years she wrote to published authors
for advice, applied to newspapers and publishers for writing
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