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Michelle Obama ‘monkey pic’ on Google
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- What do Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilder and US presidential wife Michelle Obama have in common? Oh, and her husband, Barack? They’ve all been compared to monkeys.
Continue reading »Teens Sue High School That Punished Them for Racy MySpace Pics
Two Indiana teenagers have sued their school district after they were punished for posing suggestive photos on MySpace. The girls, tenth-graders at Churubusco High School in Churubusco, Indiana, say they were humiliated after the school banned them from fall semester extracurricular activities, and forced them to apologize to the all-male Athletics Board — composed of varsity coaches — and attend three counseling sessions. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed the proposed class-action suit on behalf of the girls and all present and future students at the school who participate or may participate in extracurricular activities.
Continue reading »“Google Music” Goes Live, But Fails to Wow
Search results for new music discovery service display 4 streaming tracks, and links to videos, news, and images, but is certain to disappoint those expecting something revolutionary. Google has finally rolled out its new “Discover Music” platform that I first mentioned late last week. Done after apparent urging by the music industry, the scheme is that Google will profit from ads on the results pages while record labels could spur interest and drive music sales.
Continue reading »Now and forever. Amen.
We’ve had, “very few cases of people trying to exploit rights on other planets,” says Lynne Hale, a Lucasfilm spokeswoman on contracts the language of which is “standard in Hollywood”. She’s thus quoted in a Wall Street Journal story which kicks off »»» Decked out in sequined black and gold dresses, Anne Harrison and the other women in her Bulgarian folk-singing group were lined up to try out for NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” TV show when they noticed peculiar wording in the release papers they were asked to sign. Any of their actions that day last February, the contract said, could be “edited, in all media, throughout the universe, in perpetuity.” She and the other singers, many of whom are librarians in the Washington, D.C., area, briefly contemplated whether they should give away the rights to hurtling their images and voices across the galaxies forever.
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