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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Hong Kong Puts Google in Hot Seat With Ban on Protest Song  Bloomberg Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]‘No one’s ever heard that song like that’: ‘The Voice’ Season 23 Battle Rounds make history with ‘game-changing’ twist  Yahoo Entertainment Source link

Comment on this story Comment HONG KONG — U.S. tech giant Google is under increasing pressure by the Hong Kong government — and, by association, China — to bury in its search results a politically sensitive pro-democracy song that has been mistaken for the national anthem. The move shows the rising tensions between multinational tech giants and Chinese authorities as Beijing seeks to hide any lingering dissent from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that began in 2019. The Hong Kong… Source link

Google has once again prevailed in an ongoing legal battle with song lyrics website Genius, which claimed that Google was using its transcribed lyrics without permission in search results. Genius sued Google in 2019, arguing that Google was scraping lyrics from its website in violation of Genius’ copyright. Genius has a large database of song lyrics, and bills itself as “the world’s biggest music encyclopedia.” It tried to demonstrate that Google was scraping info from its… Source link

Team USA figure skaters Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier were hit with a lawsuit this week by a music group for their use of their version of “House of the Rising Sun” during the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The music group Heavy Young Heathens, which is made up of Robert and Aron Marderosian, sued the figure skating duo along with NBC and U.S. Figure Skating on Thursday for the use of the song during their short program routine in Beijing. The brothers claimed in the lawsuit, according to… Source link

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Android users who the “Hey Google” feature on their devices and ask to be sung a song are serenaded with music touting the benefits of the coronavirus vaccine. “Hey Google, sing me a song,” Android users across the country have asked the Google Assistant and are then subjected to the “Vaccination Song”, according to a report from PJ Media. File photo – The Google logo is displayed at the Google headquarters on September 2, 2015 in Mountain… Source link

Google is now celebrating the wide availability of Covid-19 in the US by rolling a new singing feature to its voice assistant. The Google Assistant will now sing users a song about the vaccine rollout if users say so. The feature is said to work with Google Assistant on smartphones and Home/Nest speakers as first spotted by Android Police. Users can just say, “Hey Google, sing the vaccine song” to hear the song. Users can also get the Assistant to sing the song in a male… Source link

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are said to be selling the rights to its song catalog, which include hits like “Californiacation” and “Scar Tissue,” for $140 million — in a deal that may have implications for the music industry. London-based music investment company Hipgnosis will acquire the catalog, Billboard reported this week. The agreement would add to the firm’s already impressive roster of A-list publishing deals, from Neil Young and Shakira to former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey… Source link

While we wait for the NFL to tell us the full extent of the mistreatment of Washington Football Team’s cheerleaders (any day now, NFL), or for anyone to face consequences for the department-wide, toxic environment fostered by LSU athletics, we bring you a new story of young women being let down by the very adults meant to be looking out for their well-being. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times posted an investigation by Ryan Kartje into the rotten culture of the University of Southern… Source link

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