We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest.
Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.
We’re told one of the staff members at Jackson’s home called 911.
La Toya ran in the hospital sobbing after Jackson was pronounced dead.
Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.
In one of his first major moves since abolishing the House Subcommittee in charge of Internet and intellectual property-related issues, Rep. John Conyers (D - Mich.) today introduced fresh legislation that would close the books on a key exemption in place ever since the formation of the radio industry in the 1920s: the exemption enjoyed by radio stations from paying royalties for performances of a musical work.
Terrestrial stations in the US have always paid copyright holders’ royalties, and historically it’s been for a negotiated upon annual amount, set with the cooperation of bargaining agents that collect royalties on behalf of rights holders. But performers have never seen a dime from airplay; in fact, during the scandalous 1960s, record labels were accused of, and often found to have been, paying radio stations for airplay — the famous “payola” affair.
It’s always fun to write about research that you can actually try out for yourself.
Try this: Take a photo and upload it to Facebook, then after a day or so, note what the URL to the picture is (the actual photo, not the page on which the photo resides), and then delete it. Come back a month later and see if the link works. Chances are: It will.
Finally. The Potter gang is back (this time with more raging hormones and some erstwhile snogging behind curtains in between classes).
After the whole ordeal of the “Harry Potter and the delayed video game” scenario, we get a street date notched in stone. The game was delayed due to the rescheduling of the movie from an original November 2008 release to summer 2009.
