Category: rights

Apple is reportedly buying older TV shows to take on Netflix and Amazon

[ad_1] According to people familiar with the matter, Apple intends to remain focused on original shows, but plans to round out its offering with his additional content to help attract new customers, since its initial approach has apparently not resulted in the numbers it had originally hoped for. By February this year, some 10 million […]

Facebook Watch could soon play music videos

[ad_1] Facebook previously negotiated with the labels to let users include songs in videos they post, but it doesn’t have the rights to official music videos. If it’s able to obtain those rights, Facebook could share full-length videos on Watch. That would likely drive more users to the service, and it could position Watch as […]

Homeland Security wants airport face scans for US citizens

[ad_1] It won’t surprise you to hear that civil rights advocates object to the potential expansion. ACLU Senior Policy Analyst Jay Stanley said in a statement that the government was “reneging” on a longstanding promise to spare citizens from this “intrusive surveillance technology.” He also contended that this was an unfair burden on people using […]

Pennsylvania court rules suspect can’t be forced to provide his password

[ad_1] Justice Debra Todd noted that revealing a password is testimonial as it’s a “verbal communication” that reveals your mind, not just a physical act like providing a blood sample. It also pointed to federal Supreme Court precedent where people couldn’t be forced to reveal the combination to a wall safe — in both cases, […]

‘Alan Wake’ developer may bring the cult classic to more consoles

[ad_1] It seems Remedy is interested in bringing the mystery adventure to more platforms after it was previously only available on Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One (via backwards compatibility). “The only thing we want to clarify, now that Remedy owns the publishing rights, is that we could bring Alan Wake to different platforms […]