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| U.S. judge rules copyright for 'Happy Birthday' invalid | | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:08 AM | |
|  A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that Warner/Chappell Music does not own a valid copyright to one of the world's most recognizable songs, "Happy Birthday to You," a decision that brings the song into the public domain. The highly-anticipated ruling comes in a putative class-action lawsuit filed by several artists against Warner/Chappell, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, over the song in 2013 seeking a return of the millions of dollars in fees the company has collected over the years. In order to make his ruling, U.S. District Judge George H. King had to delve into the song's long and complicated history, which began in 1893 with the publication of a melody called "Good Morning to All" in a kindergarten songbook, written by a Kentucky woman named Mildred Hill and her sister, Patty.
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| Rights protesters, China supporters greet President Xi in Seattle | | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:06 AM | |
|  By Eric M. Johnson and David Ryder SEATTLE (Reuters) - About 100 people protesting against human rights abuses in China greeted President Xi Jinping in Seattle on Tuesday, in what is likely to be the first of a series of demonstrations against China's leader during his week-long U.S. visit. In downtown Seattle, a crowd supporting Falun Gong, a religious group that says it is repressed in China, waved signs against what it called China's theft of prisoners' organs. "Falun Gong practitioners have been put into forced labor camps, prisons, and mental hospitals, and they have been killed for their organs," said Michael Green, 38, of Seattle.
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| At least five Chinese police reported killed in Xinjiang knife attack | | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:05 AM | |
| | At least five police officers have been stabbed to death by separatists in a knife attack at a coal mine in China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang, U.S.-based Radio Free Asia reported on Wednesday. The attack was "a long-planned, well-prepared, large-scale attack by separatists against police officers and mine owners at a coal field in our county", according to a government notice cited by Radio Free Asia. Such incidents are frequently reported in overseas media but not confirmed by the Chinese government until days later, if ever. |
| Analysis - Volkswagen needs to explain away software to avoid criminal charges, experts say | |  By David Ingram and Joel Schectman NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG will probably have to show there was some legitimate reason to install software that led to false vehicle emissions tests if it is to avoid U.S. criminal charges, lawyers said on Tuesday. As a result it is almost certainly exposed to very large civil penalties that could be imposed by the U.S. government, said attorneys with expertise in environmental prosecutions though not involved in the Volkswagen case. Individual employees are also likely to be investigated and could potentially face criminal charges if wrongdoing is discovered, the lawyers added.
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| Iraqi man charged with war crimes scolded for dropping lawyers | | | By Lacey Ann Johnson FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - An Iraqi man accused of being an al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan was lectured by a military judge for firing his defence attorneys on Tuesday, a move that will further postpone his trial at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. The suspect, Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi, is charged with conspiring to bomb Western forces in Afghanistan and killing civilians and U.S. soldiers. It can't become something that can be done lightly, on a whim." "Just because you disagree or don't like rulings of the commission is not good cause for excusal of your counsel," he said, addressing Hadi al-Iraqi directly. Court proceedings were suspended indefinitely on Tuesday, pending security clearance approval for a new military defence attorney, Waits said. Hadi al-Iraqi said he would prefer a civilian lawyer but does not have the funds to obtain one. Hadi al-Iraqi said he spent a long time thinking about his decision to replace his attorneys and deflected blame for the delays in the case to the military justice system. |
| How U.S. lawyers were so quick off the mark to sue Volkswagen | | | By Alison Frankel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Less than four days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Volkswagen had designed some of its diesel models to cheat emissions tests, lawyers have brought at least 25 class actions on behalf of scores of car owners in all 50 U.S. states. One reason class action lawyers were able to mobilise so fast is that the company's marketing to upscale professionals had backfired: Plaintiffs lawyers didn't have to look far for clients because many of their friends and colleagues owned the cars. As soon as the news broke, he reached out another lawyer, who connected him with Steve Berman, a lead partner at Hagens Berman, one of the best-known plaintiffs' class action law firms. |
| Texas teen arrested over homemade clock to visit United Nations | |  By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas teenager who became a global sensation after he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb will be meeting foreign dignitaries at the United Nations this week, a family friend said on Tuesday. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a Muslim student who dabbles in robotics and attended a Dallas area high school, touched off a social media firestorm with many seeing his the arrest as being tied to his religion.
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| Pentagon announces transfer of Guantanamo detainee to Saudi Arabia | | | The United States has transferred Abdul Shalabi, a detainee at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the government of Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. "The United States is grateful to the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility," the Pentagon said in a statement. |
| No Volkswagen crisis meeting on Tuesday: sources | |  Volkswagen has not brought forward a meeting of senior supervisory board members to Tuesday evening from Wednesday, sources told Reuters, denying an earlier report by a German newspaper. The Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung had reported that senior board members and members of top VW management were already meeting. Citing board sources, the paper said Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn had lost the support of major shareholders.
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