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Apologies in advance for not knowing squat about music.But this is much in the news and seems topical.Randy Wolfe was a California rocker in the glorious '60s and was actually given the nickname "Randy California" by none other than Jimi Hendrix.How cool is that?Much of Randy's work was not terribly commercial, but he was revered among guitarists, able to play like Hendrix, Clarence White, Roger McGuinn, or Wes Montgomery

in the creation of music.The process to create the Music Modernization Act took several

Michael Wahl was an attorney become animation exec with his company Gunther-

For Ellison to win, he must show AOL knew infringement was taking place and contributed to it. KnowledgeIncredibly, AOL had changed its contact email address but waited some months to register the change with the U.S. Copyright Office and failed to configure the old address to forward new messages.Which was why they didn't get Ellison's notice.Further, AOL had received a phone call from a subscriber telling them of infringing activity on the alt.binaries.e-bookgroup.They don't address whether a lone phone call to a behemoth corporation should trigger knowledge.But that's why it's a jury question.

Refining city services is gradually being placed in the hands of the citizens, or, as in the case of IBM’s initiative, “let’s build a planet of smarter cities” ( https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35573.wss ), at their fingertips. By reducing cost and gaining control in building smart transportation management systems, IBM provided a grant to the city of Chicago to reinvigorate Chicago’s K-12 schools and city college. Similarly, Catherine Bracy ( https://www.codeforamerica.org/people/catherine-bracy/ ) and her team at Code for America are using technology to “build governments for the people and by the people in the twenty-first century.” It is evident that smart cities should accommodate every citizen, most especially those who may struggle with accessing information through conventional mediums. Specifically, smart cities must ensure that full participation is available to those citizens with communication and learning disabilities and new immigrant populations who experience difficulties understanding the language of their new home county. The biggest challenge for these citizens is using the Internet for learning because of the need to read, view, or listen to content published online. Disabled students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses at colleges and universities are at a particular disadvantage since the use of empirical observation is critical in scientific learning and research. In this paper, we propose an intervention using a new software product and workflow for video captioning—a Universal Video Captioning platform (UVC). This platform provides a semi-automatic approach to synchronize the captioning into accessible STEM-related videos. It has the potential to transform learning and teaching for students with disabilities and those whose native language is not English by integrating synchronized captioned educational videos into undergraduate and graduate STEM disciplines. While accessing scientific content can pose unique challenges for disabled students and those who have just started learning a new language, the UVC platform has the potential to provide students with disabilities and recent immigrants the ability to pursue new and deeper learning opportunities.

We've come a long way from the days when pro baseball players gave up their image for $125 a season and the Leagues made millions off trading cards.And yes, I had to look it up.The 8th Circuit is Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota.NFL Films does films of significant games, seasons and players in the NFL history.Our players were in the NFL in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.They are in the game footage and gave interviews after retirement.They sued under the right-of-publicity of a variety of states and for unjust enrichment.There were more than just the three named in the suit.The others settled after the NFL created a fund for the benefit of all players.Our named three did not settle, and on appeal the issue was their individual right-of-publicity and Lanham Act claims for use of their images.NFL won summary judgment in the district court on the right-of-publicity claim.The

Yes, Americans will indulge in tattoos.Indeed, it takes an edgy rebel to go without one today.Tattoo Art is a Virginia company with copyright on hundreds of colorized "tattoo flash" designs -original designs on a poster to give tattoo parlor customers ideas.For when you're blind drunk and getting that first tat of course.So they wouldn't have to pay to register hundreds of individual works, Tattoo Art put them into 50-sheet "Books" and did one registration for each book.It then licensed the designs for, of course, tattoos, but also for those must-have cell phone covers and t-shirts.Indeed, the very foundations of the American economy.In December 2005, TAT licensed from Tattoo Art specified flash drawings for airbrushed tattoos.Which is to say temporary ones.For those not drunk enough or too timid to permanently stamp themselves with a steadily blurring hackneyed design.There were quarterly royalty statements from gross sales, a minimal payment of $6,000 and blah-blah.There was an initial term of three years and then an on-going year-to-year unless one party wanted to quit.If TAT quit, it could dispose of finished inventory.However, if Tattoo Art terminated TAT for breach, TAT had to end all sales.TAT more or less admitted to all this, but claimed there was an oral modification eliminating the minimum payment and allowing TAT to sell off inventory even if terminated for breach.This agreement was made before the final acceptance went down.