Headline on nme.com: "David Schwimmer says he wanted to 'hide under a baseball cap' after 'Friends' success". He was the whiny one, right?
Lorde, Tom Waits, and Chris Cornell are among the judges for this year's International Songwriting Competition.
The annual songwriting contest lets aspiring songwriters to have their songs heard on professional level. Winners share cash and other prizes, as well as receive recognition for their craft.
Judges this year will also include Avicii, Kesha, Bastille, India.Arie, Donovan, Hardwell, Ziggy Marley, and Keane.
Past winners include Vance Joy, Gotye, Bastille, The Band Perry, Kimbra, Passenger, Kasey Chambers, Andrew Bird and more (people I've only vaguely heard of).
Past winners include Vance Joy, Gotye, Bastille, The Band Perry, Kimbra, Passenger, Kasey Chambers, Andrew Bird and more (people I've only vaguely heard of).
Officials at Graceland say a new entertainment complex will be built across the street from the former home of Elvis Presley.
The $45 million complex will include exhibits that highlight the late singer's life and career exploits in music and film, according to the announcement released last Thursday, and will include a 450 room hotel that's scheduled to open October 27.
An appeals court has ruled that Live Nation will not be liable for $3.2 million in damages originally awarded to photographer Glen Friedman for the company's use of the photographer's images of Run-DMC without his permission.
The court held that Friedman's copyrights were infringed, but he would not be allowed to recover statutory damages from each of the retailers that sold the items.
"[A] jury could reasonably conclude that Live Nation’s approval procedures amounted to recklessness or willful blindness with respect to Friedman’s intellectual property rights," according to circuit judge Marsha S. Berzon.
"From the face of the documents, one could conclude that they are directed at design decisions, not the rights to the photographs. Nor do the specific forms signed by Run-DMC indicate in any way that the group was clearing the legal right to use the photographs, on their own behalf or anyone else’s."
It was on this day in 1962 that Ringo Starr made his debut with the Beatles at the horticultural society dance in Birkenhead, England. The rest, as they say, is history.
Birthdays today include: Eric Strody of Everlast; Ron Strykert of Men At Work; Dennis Elliot of Foreigner; and Nona Hendryx. #MusicalBirthdays
An appeals court has ruled that Live Nation will not be liable for $3.2 million in damages originally awarded to photographer Glen Friedman for the company's use of the photographer's images of Run-DMC without his permission.The court held that Friedman's copyrights were infringed, but he would not be allowed to recover statutory damages from each of the retailers that sold the items.
"[A] jury could reasonably conclude that Live Nation’s approval procedures amounted to recklessness or willful blindness with respect to Friedman’s intellectual property rights," according to circuit judge Marsha S. Berzon.
"From the face of the documents, one could conclude that they are directed at design decisions, not the rights to the photographs. Nor do the specific forms signed by Run-DMC indicate in any way that the group was clearing the legal right to use the photographs, on their own behalf or anyone else’s."
It was on this day in 1962 that Ringo Starr made his debut with the Beatles at the horticultural society dance in Birkenhead, England. The rest, as they say, is history.
Birthdays today include: Eric Strody of Everlast; Ron Strykert of Men At Work; Dennis Elliot of Foreigner; and Nona Hendryx. #MusicalBirthdays
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