Apple Upcoming Event on September 9
Apple just sent out invitations for the Apple event occurring on September 9, 2014. Only a couple of days to the big event. Let the countdown begin...
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Shakira's Spanish-Language Version "Loca" Infringed Copyright Law
Fresh and interesting article posted on BBC News concerning Shakira's song “Loca’’ which contains, according Judge Alvin Hellerstein, segments that were clearly copied from Dominican artist Ramon Arias Vasquez’s “Loca con su Tiguere” from the late 1990s. Happy reading! "A hit song performed by Colombian pop star Shakira was indirectly copied from another songwriter's work, a federal judge in New York has found. Judge Alvin Hellerstein said Shakira's Spanish-language version of Loca in 2010 had infringed on a song by Dominican singer Ramon Arias Vazquez. Her English language version of Loca - which featured Dizzee Rascal - was "not offered into evidence" at the trial. Neither version of Loca was released as a single in the UK. However, the Spanish language version - a collaboration with Dominican rapper Eduard Edwin Bello Pou, better known as El Cata - was widely released as a single around the world. It went on to sell more t...
The UK's Premier League Slided Tackle Football Life in Motion GIFs and Vines
Following the World Cup 2014 in Brazil, and the massive spread of animated GIFs, Vines, and “GIF-goal” on the Internet, mostly over Twitter and Vine (the short-form video sharing service acquired by Twitter in October 2012) but also on Facebook, the most-watched football league in the world is trying to protect their intellectual property rights. According to Dan Johnson, director of communications at the Premier League, GIF are a breach of copyright law. But is it, really? Graphics Interchange Format, mostly commonly known as the acronym “GIF”, has not only been the subject of disagreement over its pronunciation, even called the “The Most Absurd Religious War in Geek History” (for the record, it should be pronounced so it starts with a "j" rather than with a hard "g"; although President Obama preferred to use the "hard g" ), but due to its widespread usage on the Internet recently caught the attention of the UK's Premier League communicatio...