Jun 24, 2021 · In mid-August 2020, Britney’s attorney requested a substantial amendment to the conservatorship, which was set to expire on August 22. Despite Britney’s opposition to her father’s continued control and his request for a co-conservator, a judge extended Jamie Spears’ control until February 2021. Now, Britney’s father is a co ...
Dec 14, 2020 · Inside Boston's Unsolved $500 Million Art Heist. The biggest art theft in history occurred at the Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum, in Boston, Massachusetts. On March 18, 1990, two burglars broke into the museum and made off with 13 works of art, worth half a billion dollars. Despite a thorough investigation and several promising leads, the ...
Dec 14, 2021 · More recently, on January 1, 2021, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby came into the public domain. “It has almost the status of a holy work, and it’s seen as embodying all kinds of things about American values and society,” literary scholar James L. W. West III told Time. And, while writers will now have the opportunity to pen their ...
Feb 16, 2022 · At age 44, Tom Brady is finally hanging up his cleats after 21 seasons. The former quarterback, who won a Super Bowl in 2021 with Tampa Bay but played most of his career with New England, announced his retirement after the Buccaneers’ loss to the Los Angeles Rams on January 23, 2022. Exiting the league with many records to his name, Brady’s ...
The podcast, “Last Seen,” covers the robbery, the suspects, people connected to the case and the FBI’s investigation.
The biggest art theft in history occurred at the Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum, in Boston, Massachusetts. On March 18, 1990, two burglars broke into the museum and made off with 13 works of art, worth half a billion dollars. Despite a thorough investigation and several promising leads, the Gardner theft remains unsolved to this day.
Stewart Gardner was born in New York City on April 14, 1840. Her father, David Stewart, made a living by importing Irish linen. Growing up, she lived in University Place in Manhattan.
During the trip, Stewart Gardner’s health improved and she created scrapbooks of her adventures. #OnThisDay in 1886, Henry James introduced Isabella to John Singer Sargent in London, where she visited his studio to view his infamous portrait, “Madame X.”.
Well, the CTEA is actually nicknamed the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act.”. In 1990, The Walt Disney Company was looking a little over a decade down the road, well aware that their cartoon ambassador, money-maker and brand-builder, Mickey Mouse, would soon be in the public domain. As a result, Disney lobbied for copyright extension, ...
The prequel came out on January 5, 2021, just after the first of the year — ...
Jennifer Jenkins, a law professor at Duke University who directs Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, clarified to NPR that a work in public domain is “free for anyone to use, reuse, build upon for anyone — without paying a fee.”. As far as The Great Gatsby goes, writer Michael Farris Smith saw Fitzgerald’s classic entertaining ...
Back in 2016, a U.S. district judge approved a settlement that firmly placed “Happy Birthday to You” in the public domain. Warner/Chappell Music, a music publishing company that had acquired the company that previously claimed ownership of the song in 1988, collected “Happy Birthday to You” royalties for years — and planned to do so until at least 2030. After the ruling, the plaintiffs' attorney noted that “Strong copyright protection is important for artists and content creators, but it must have limits. This landmark ruling recognizes the value of the public domain.”
More recently, on January 1 , 2021, F. Scott Fitz gerald’s The Great Gatsby came into the public domain. “It has almost the status of a holy work, and it’s seen as embodying all kinds of things about American values and society,” literary scholar James L. W. West III told Time. And, while writers will now have the opportunity to pen their own sequels ...
As a result, Disney lobbied for copyright extension, thus delaying the earliest released Mickey Mouse shorts — like “Steamboat Willie” — from entering the public domain. Of course, the CTEA didn’t just protect Mickey, but those who were opposed to copyright extension named the act after the character due to Disney's rather active role in creating ...
When the copyright on Mickey’s first outing, “Steamboat Willie,” veers into the public domain, people will be able to screen the film free ly, but it doesn’t necessarily mean the characters in it will be up for grabs. Writing for Nova Southeastern University Florida, Stephen Carlisle notes in the 2014 article “Mickey’s Headed to the Public Domain!