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Kraftwerk Copyright Case Overturned in Germany

November 21, 2008

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 ...

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C'est Si Bon (It's so Good)

November 21, 2008

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 ...

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Sonic Buys Cinemanow in Movie Burning Deal

November 21, 2008

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 ...

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International Jazz Star Avishai Cohen Joins the Blue Note Family

November 20, 2008

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 ...

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CA Lawsuit Claims Obama Not Born in Us

November 20, 2008

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 ...

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Texas Prosecutor Indicts Foes, and Cheney and Gonzales

November 20, 2008

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. ...

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John McCain Fights Back vs. Jackson Browne

November 20, 2008

'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 ...

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Sassy's Happy Sobs: Sarah Vaughan at the White House

November 19, 2008

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 ...

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Vice President Cheney Indicted

November 18, 2008

Vice President Cheney, Former AG Gonzalez, Indicted in Texas Indictment hits Cheney like a shot in the face. McALLEN, Texas - A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers. The ...

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Three Little Bops Mystery Solved?

November 18, 2008

When Marc Myers at JazzWax.com decides to solve a mystery, he goes into full Sherlock Holmes mode. He has done that in an attempt to track down the complete personnel of the Shorty Rogers combo in the Looney Tunes cartoon Three Little Bops, which ran last week on Rifftides. I agree with critic Larry Kart's conclusion ...