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August 4, 2025

Finally, on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025, in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing on the use of copyrighted works to train artificial…

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May 19, 2025

Alan Freed, a pioneering radio disc jockey widely cited as popularizing the term "rock and roll," emerged as the central figure in the notorious payola scandal of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Payola denotes…

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March 3, 2025

A Carnegie Hall benefit concert, “Thanksgiving Jazz," took place on November 29, 1957, produced by Kenneth Lee Karpe for the Morningside Community Center in Harlem. Voice of America recorded two sets that night performed by…