Wednesday 27 August 2008

Has Michael Jackson Stiffed His Brothers?

The extremely anticipated Jackson 5 reunion scheduled for this fall might be hitting a major roadblock after reports surfaced that Michael Jackson has been shorting his brothers.

According to a Page Six report, Jackson owes his brothers Jermaine, Tito, Marlon and Jackie roughly $840,000 in royalties from their Jackson 5 hits. Despite the fact that Jackson has been acquitted of charges stemming from child harassment allegations, he has not made whatever attempt to pay his brothers. According to the report, the Jackson brothers have non been able to mouth with him since the child molestation case closed three long time ago.

With an upcoming lifetime accomplishment (Icon) honor presentation at this geezerhood BMI Urban Awards, Jackson who is reportedly in a wheelchair, will likely be a no show, stifling fans and industry heads wHO were look forward to a Jackson 5 reunion of sorts.

The BMI Urban Awards will be held September 4th.



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Thursday 7 August 2008

Ruling Will Allow Home Tv Recording At Cable Companies

A federal appeals court in New York has overturned a lower-court opinion that halted New York cable operator Cablevision Systems from allowing customers to use its own servers to track record their favourite programs and play them back instead of having to use individual digital video recorders installed future to their TV sets. Broadcast and cable networks had argued that such an out-of-home system would infringe their copyrights and would boost users to skip commercials. Cablevision had responded that functionally the system would not dissent substantially from the settop DVRs that it presently provides to its subscribers. In an interview with the New York Times, Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge said that the decision "changes cable's competitive stance against satellite; it makes the services less expensive to provide; and it makes it easier to upgrade the services."

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