Oct 262022
 

The ACLU asked the Supreme Court to rule that laws prohibiting specific kinds of boycotts are unconstitutional,
after one federal appeals court ruled to the contrary.

The authoritarian campaign to prohibit boycotting Israel has put the
US in danger of broad-spectrum plutocratist authoritarianism.

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Oct 262022
 

Fair Use says it is OK to use this image because this is a commentary on it. Right? U.S. Supreme CourtThe internet has opened access to culture. Billions of webpages build on the art, images, music, film, television and writing of the past. This explosion of content leads to tough questions over ownership of creative work and exclusivity of use. The highest court in the land may soon try to better define the limits of free use, or the right to remix previously published work. On Oct. 12, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith. The case addresses when artists or writers may…

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Oct 262022
 

More than two dozen tenants have lived for years in dilapidated dwellings leased by the Eno River Association. Now their absentee landlord wants to sell the land, and their homes, to the state.

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Oct 262022
 

On Monday, 30 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter to President Joe Biden suggesting the US negotiate with Russia to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, they withdrew their letter, repudiated calls for negotiation and pledged their full support for the war.

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