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When you pay for Amazon/Kindle eBooks, for example, you enter into a licensing agreement which states that you cannot sublicense or assign your eBook access rights to any third party. This means that you are paying full-price for books that are essentially lifetime rentals for you, and only you."...the Amazon agreement states that the Kindle’s “digital content is licensed, not sold, to you” (Amazon.com Inc., 2009). This statement effectively strips away all of the rights libraries and others would be granted as the owners of information resources, and so they will not be able to “sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense, or otherwise assign any rights to the digital content or any portion of it to any third party” (Amazon.com Inc., 2009)."Read this for some more information:HTML http://www.nathansavagestudio.com/words/documents/Libraries-eBooks-and-Copyright-Law/PDF http://www.nathansavagestudio.com/words/documents/Libraries-eBooks-and-Copyright-Law/Libraries-eBooks-and-Copyright-Law.pdfEPUB http://www.nathansavagestudio.com/words/documents/Libraries-eBooks-and-Copyright-Law/Libraries-eBooks-and-Copyright-Law.epub

H1B abuse isn't something individuals do, it's something companies do. Today, the odds are very, very high that any given H1B beneficiary is a party to abuse. This is a relatively new phenomenon, and seems to have become endemic in just the last 15 years.The workers may not think there's anything wrong because they get to work in the U.S. and everyone seems to be doing the same thing, but they are almost certainly being paid less than they should be and imported for jobs they aren't permitted to do. If you know anyone who was placed on a zero-hour contract, assigned to an office other than their employer's, or who paid fees or had deductions for visas or processing, you almost certainly know someone involved in H1B abuse.There are five broad types of H1B abuse:replacing US workerspaying below the prevailing wagesusing H1Bs as tempswage theftsmuggling and employing undocumented immigrants.What is described below is criminal, in the a very literal sense. It's not even a comprehensive list, it's just a quick sample compiled in a few minutes. If they weren't billion-dollar companies, each of the largest petitioners for H1Bs would be permanently banned from sponsoring visas. There would probably be extradition requests for the executives, and they certainly would have outstanding warrants.Replacing US workers:One of the most famous cases came out of Southern California Edison (2015):Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs. ...SCE, Southern California's largest utility, has confirmed the layoffs and the hiring of Infosys, based in Bangalore, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Mumbai. (Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements)Similar incidents occurred at Northeast Utilities in 2013 (?) and Disney in 2015 (?):Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost. ...HCL America, a branch of a global company based in Noida, India, won a contract with Disney in 2012. In a statement, the company said details of the agreement were confidential. (Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.)Paying below the prevailing wage:This one is so systemic that it's pointless to choose examples. It's obvious in the statistics for all of the largest H1B petitioners: the average salary of their H1B employees is below the prevailing wage for the industry. The usual excuse is something like "we hired them at the prevailing wage in Flint, Michigan, and now they just happen to work in San Francisco." Which gets to the next problem, that the entire "consulting" model is basically an H1B violation.Using H1Bs as temps:The 2009 Vision Systems Group case:The companies that are the subject of this investigation have asserted that the foreign workers have been brought to the U.S. to fill existing vacancies. However, the companies allegedly have not always had jobs available for these workers, thereby placing them in non-pay status after they arrive in the United States. In some cases, the foreign workers have allegedly been placed in jobs and locations not previously certified by the Department of Labor, displacing qualified American workers and violating prevailing wage laws. (11 Arrested, Indicted in Multi-State Operation Targeting Visa and Mail Fraud)The 2013 Dibon Solutions case:The indictment says that Dibon recruited foreign workers and sponsored them for H-1B visas to work at the firm's headquarters, but required them to provide consulting services to third-party companies located elsewhere. The company only paid the H-1B workers when they were placed at a third party company, "and only if the third party company actually paid Dibon first for the workers' services"... (H-1B 'Benching' Visa Fraud Indictment Unsealed in Texas) [Indictment PDF]The 2014 Silicon Valley Systech case:[A] Cupertino man involved with one body shop pleaded guilty and was sentenced in US District Court to 19 felony counts of visa fraud where he admitted he knowingly applied for work visas for foreigners who had no job offers, filling out applications for fake jobs for a Silicon Valley tech firm...“Most of these people had also paid substantial fees, illegally, to cover the cost of the H-1B visa application to the United States,” said Ng, a labor attorney in San Francisco. He considers Santa Clara-based Silicon Valley Systech to be a body shop. Ng said many of the SVS workers were “benched” once they arrived in the US, meaning there was no job and were forced to wait for work on the “bench.” Under H-1B rules, that’s illegal. ...Midway through the lawsuit’s process in 2009, Silicon Valley Systech went out of business, leaving workers with nothing. (Highly Educated Foreign Workers Treated Like Indentured Servants)The 2013 BCG Consulting case:Balarkishan Patwardhan, the 52-year-old head of BCG Consulting, was arrested Monday and charged with making false claims in an attempt to procure tech worker visas for 19 employees, according to an indictment filed in federal court in San Jose, California. Federal prosecutors allege Mr. Patwardhan falsely claimed on visa applications that the computer system analysts and programmers he was sponsoring had full time job offers and salaries. In reality, the government says, the full time jobs did not exist. (Government Cracks Down On Tech Visa Fraud)Wage theft:In 2013, Tata Consulting paid $30 million to settle a class action suit alleging tax fraud and wage theft.The complaint charged that Tata breached the contracts of its non-U.S.-citizen employees by requiring them to sign over their federal and state tax refund checks to Tata, and by failing to pay its non-U.S.-citizen employees the monies promised to those employees before they came to the United States. (Tata Workers in America Wages Class Action Lawsuit)“It comes down to people not getting paid what they’re promised to get paid or what they should be getting paid,” Hutchinson said. “And that’s actually the experience that we’ve seen for a lot of people where people have come forward and company officials have told them, ‘if you complain about this, if you don’t sign over this amount, if you don’t agree to this deduction, then we can just send you back to India.’” (Highly Educated Foreign Workers Treated Like Indentured Servants)Smuggling and employing undocumented immigrants:While denying that it committed visa fraud, Infosys has agreed to pay the largest penalty ever for alleged immigration violations—$34 million—to close the investigation and conclude the civil case... From 2008 to 2011, Infosys "as a matter of practice" wrote "invitation letters"—documents submitted to and reviewed by U.S. consular officials and other immigration officials—that misrepresented the purpose of employees' travel, according to the government complaint...."To circumvent the requirements, limitations and governmental oversight of the H-1B visa program, Infosys committed visa fraud by knowingly and unlawfully using B-1 visa holders to perform skilled labor in order to fill positions for employment that would otherwise be performed by United States citizens or require legitimate H-1B visa holders," according to the complaint. (U.S. Accuses Infosys of 'Fraud and Abuse' in Visa Case)

When documents are signed with e-signatures or digital signatures like Signaturely, third-parties can't unlock the documents and edit the contents.It happens because the e-signature is meant to ensure the signatures' validity and does not allow further modifications once a document has been signed.Unlocking a Signed DocumentGenerally speaking, you cannot unlock a document you didn't sign unless it is unlocked for you by the one who originally signed and locked it.So, even if you can modify the contents of a document somehow, for instance, by making a non-signed copy of it, the signature will either be removed or not be valid anymore.In my case, I was able to unlock a locked PDF by using an Android app called "Xodo." The original did not allow printing,but I could print the copy that I made with that app. But note that the new copy is no longer legally valid, and the signature cannot be verified.Signing and Locking a New DocumentIf you want to sign a document and lock it so that others cannot edit it just as you couldn't this time around, you should sign up for an e-signature service. I have a free account on Signaturely that allows me to make up to 3 signature requests each month. Moreover, it does not expire, so it is great for casual use.It is integrated with popular cloud storage services like Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox, so you can sign your documents on the fly without having anything to worry about. With the 'Business' subscription, you can also add custom business branding to your documents.