Sony Music again this week argued that a copyright dispute with former members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience should be pursued in the courts in New York not London. Lawsuits have been filed on both sides of the Atlantic, but – Sony’s legal rep said – the US case should be prioritised, because the outcome […]
A US judge has knocked back an attempt by the Recording Industry Association Of America to get a contribution towards the legal costs it incurred fighting a lawsuit filed against it by stream-ripping site Yout. Although the trade body can have another go at getting those costs covered once the ongoing appeal in that legal […]
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday, and is facing criminal charges in the United States, according to a Bahamian official.
Jack Brewer tells a curious story about a response to an FOIA request he made at the request of Erica Lukes of the podcast UFO Classified. Jack doesn’t say exactly why he was requesting records on Coast to Coast AM, but he does perhaps make some allusions. Jason Colavito gets John Greenewald, Jr.’s name wrong, but does aptly ask Why Did a Vice Cop Report Crashed Saucers and Dead Aliens to the FBI in 1950? Jason’s construction of the answer makes more sense if we remember the Silas Newton lecture in Denver was March 8, 1950, rather than 1955. More in the way of fakery comes from Kate S. Petersen’s Fact Check: Supposed UFO Video is Computer-Generated Imagery. Seems the vid’s been kicking around for more than ten years, and keeps getting resurrected. But the “blinking light” on the supposed UFO being escorted by jets is a nice touch! We end these shenanigans-related pieces with a Coast to Coast AM report that a Vandal Spray Paints ‘Aliens Exist’ on Side of Rome’s Famed Pantheon. Tim Binnall relates that the disgusting crime also uncovered a security failure. (WM)