Jazz News

Viacom Says YouTube Ignored Copyrights

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

Pointing to internal YouTube e-mail messages, Viacom said in a court filing that the video sites founders turned a blind eye when users uploaded copyrighted clips so they could amass a big audience and sell the company quickly.

The charge was one of many made by Viacom in filings unsealed on Thursday in its three-year-old copyright lawsuit against YouTube and Google, which bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion. Google fired back, saying Viacom was distorting the record by taking ...

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Neil Young Trunk Show

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

Virtually from the beginning of a career that's closing in on the half-century mark, Neil Young has been both an obsessive archivist and a passionate believer in the nexus of rock music and film. That combination goes a long way toward explaining why he's made considerably more films than your average rock star and why he has returned time and again to the concert film genre attempting to find fresh approaches. It also explains his friendships and collaborations with the ...

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Where Are Twitter Users Going?

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

As most Twitter users know, a significant portion of the social network's value comes from all the interesting links that send users from one part of the Web to another. Market-research firm Hitwise recently decided to see where all those Twitter users go when they leave Twitter.com. The firm found that most folks go to entertainment sites and other social networks. According to Hitwise, about 60% of Twitter users go to entertainment sites or social networks after leaving Twitter.com. Out ...

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Is Apple Developing a Social Networking App for iPhone?

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent that describes a location-based social-networking application for the iPhone. The patent, discovered by Apple blog Patently Apple, describes a location-based app, called iGroups, that would enable users to form a social network with others around them. The main focus is to deliver a social-networking-like service, while maintaining a person's privacy. “During private or public events, a typical individual may have many brief contacts with individuals for which they would ...

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King of the Wild Frontier Has Died

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

Fess Parker, whose star-making portrayal of frontiersman Davy Crockett on television in the mid-1950s made him a hero to millions of young baby boomers and spurred a nationwide run on coonskin caps, died Thursday. He was 85. Parker, who played another pioneer American hero on television's “Daniel Boone" in the 1960s before becoming a successful Santa Barbara hotel developer and Santa Ynez Valley winery owner, died of complications from old age at his home near the winery, said family spokeswoman ...

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Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2010

Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night. [T]he sentences would be the longest ever imposed in an identity theft case and among the longest imposed for a financial crime, which is appropriate because Gonzalez was at the center of the largest and most ...

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Rockyoumentally Interviews: Poogie Bell, Victor Bailey & Rez Abbasi.

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2010

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Rejuvenated Jakob Dylan

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

Jakob Dylan called in some impressive collaborators to help with his new “Women and Country" album that's coming out next month.

At the top of the list being producer extraordinaire T Bone Burnett and singer-songwriter Neko Case, the latter of whom serves as his vocal foil on several of the songs.

But it's entirely possible the whole project never would have existed if not for Glen Campbell. The Campbell connection came up earlier this year when Dylan went to visit ...

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