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Kraftwerk Copyright Case Overturned in Germany
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Billboard Magazine
Germany's highest civil court has dealt Kraftwerk a blow in ruling that sampling music does not in principle violate copyright. Today's (Nov. 20) decision overturns a Hamburg state court ruling in Kraftwerk's favor that said reusing even the shortest bit of a song infringed on copyright. The Hamburg court will now have to take up the case again. The civil court ruling, however, forbids sampling of a song melody and insists that the sample must be part of a completely ...
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C'est Si Bon (It's so Good)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When I was a kid in the late 1960s, my artist parents used to take me and my brother to Paris in the summers. My bohemian folks weren't wealthy. They had lived there in the 1950s and loved returning each year when my brother and I were off from school. We'd stay with their friends out in the Neuilly district near the Bois de Boulogne. After I got married in the 1980s, my wife and I traveled to Paris fairly ...
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Sonic Buys Cinemanow in Movie Burning Deal
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PC Magazine
Sonic Solutions said Wednesday that it had agreed to buy the assets of streaming movie provider CinemaNow. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement combines CinemaNow's online movie business with Sonic's Qflix team, the technology that allowed users to download and burn CinemaNow movies as part of a November 2007 deal. The combination of the Qflix team and CinemaNow will now be known as Sonic's Premium Content Group. Sonic Solutions, which acquired Roxio in 2004, joined forces with ...
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International Jazz Star Avishai Cohen Joins the Blue Note Family
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All About Jazz
PARIS (NOVEMBER 21, 2008) EMI Musics Blue Note label is proud to announce that its French team has signed a worldwide deal with charismatic bassist/composer/singer & band leader Avishai Cohen. Born April 20, 1970 in Israel, this extraordinary and eclectic artist is widely considered to be one of the biggest new stars on the international jazz scene, reaching out to a broad audience around the world and becoming a much in demand musician in multiple genres. In 2003 he made ...
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CA Lawsuit Claims Obama Not Born in Us
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All About Jazz
Obama Birth Drama. Buena Park Pastor says Obama was born in Kenya and can not be sworn in as President
President-Elect Barack Obama says he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama provided a birth certificate to prove it, but a Buena Park pastor says Obama is not telling the truth. The Orange County Register reports that Rev. Wiley Drake, who ran for vice president on the American Independent ticket, filed a lawsuit claiming “Obama has not provided sufficient proof he ...
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Texas Prosecutor Indicts Foes, and Cheney and Gonzales
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Michael Ricci
HOUSTON The longtime district attorney in Willacy County, Tex., is not retiring from public office quietly after a defeat at the polls this year. Instead he has issued a flurry of indictments against his local political enemies, and then for good measure filed charges against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. Mr. Cheney was charged with engaging in an organized criminal activity in connection with the 2001 beating death of an inmate by two fellow ...
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John McCain Fights Back vs. Jackson Browne
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All About Jazz
'Running on Empty'Senator seeks damages, claims singer's lawsuit chilled free speech.
John McCain may have lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, but his campaign seems absolutely determined not to lose to Jackson Browne. The singer/songwriter sued McCain in August after the Republican candidate for the highest office in the land used his song, Running on Empty, in a campaign commercial that targeted Obamas energy plan. At the time, many didnt take the legal threat very seriously, but based on ...
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Sassy's Happy Sobs: Sarah Vaughan at the White House
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Night Lights Classic Jazz
An article in the Sunday, November 9 New York Times about the history of African-American visitors to the White House came with a jazz twist at the end involving Sarah Vaughan. Vaughan performed at the White House in 1964 as part of a state dinner hosted by president Lyndon B. Johnson for the prime minister of Japan. In Leslie Gourse’s Vaughan biography pianist Bob James described the singer’s nervousness before her appearance in the East Room, an area with an ...
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