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Common Music Acquires , the Rights to Neil Diamond’s , Total Music Catalog. Singer and songwriter Neil Diamond has joined a rising variety of big-name artists from previous generations to promote their music catalog. . ‘The New York Occasions’ stories that Diamond, well-known for hits like “Candy Caroline” and
I spent greater than three years researching Rochester’s historical past within the civil rights period in the middle of writing my guide, “Your Kids Are Very Vastly in Hazard,” on the subject of college segregation. That point additionally served as a possibility to look at how the every day Gannett newspapers coated essential tales about race, particularly in the course of the Sixties.
Each the morning Democrat and Chronicle and the afternoon Instances-Union did good work in sure instances. Gannett gained a particular Pulitzer Prize quotation in 1964 for a nationwide collection known as “The Street to Integration,” spearheaded in
Dozens of rights teams are demanding a crackdown on a synthetic intelligence system used to listen in on U.S. prisoners’ telephone calls, after a Thomson Reuters Basis investigation highlighted the chance of rights violations.
Paperwork from eight states confirmed jail and jail authorities had been utilizing surveillance software program known as Verus, which scans for key phrases and leverages Amazon’s voice-to-text transcription service, to watch prisoners’ telephone calls.
California-based LEO Applied sciences, which operates Verus, says it has scanned near 300 million minutes of calls going out and in of prisons and jails in america, describing the device as a
Extra LOTR content material may very well be on the way in which if the rights are bought.
The rights to make motion pictures and video video games primarily based on JRR Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are about to go up on the market, in accordance with a report Wednesday. The Saul Zaentz Firm is promoting off the Tolkien rights it acquired again in 1976 for a predicted $2 billion, Selection stated.
The rights additionally embrace TV reveals with greater than 8 episodes, stay occasions, merchandise and theme parks, and a few rights
The US Division of the Treasury Friday sanctioned 15 individuals and 10 entities underneath new govt orders in a transfer denouncing human rights abuses. The Division additionally restricted investments in a Chinese language firm that makes use of surveillance know-how.
Leaders of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area of China (XUAR) have been sanctioned due to alleged human rights abuses. The Treasury Division expressed specific concern over the XUAR’s use of synthetic intelligence to file biometric knowledge about “hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs within the Xinjiang area.” Such knowledge is used to tell choices about who’s detained primarily based on perceived