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April 20, 2026  

No sentence in the next four paragraphs of this admittedly frank, cathartic rambling, to my mind at least, can be refuted. That was the prompt, the challenge I set for myself and ultimately tried to…

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March 16, 2026

On March 16, 1751, 275 years ago today, James Madison was born at Belle Grove Plantation, his mother's family home in Port Conway, Virginia. Often called the “Father of the Constitution,” Madison was also the…

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February 16, 2025 

Is today’s officially sanctioned holiday greeting to one's fellow citizens in middle North America “Happy Presidents’ Day”? And what, if anything (except “I’m sorry”), needs to be said to global neighbors about the goings-on this…

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November 17, 2025  

Last Tuesday, November 11, 2025, a German court ruled that OpenAI's ChatGPT violated copyright law by using song lyrics without permission. The court ruled that OpenAI should have obtained licenses for German lyrics in GEMA…

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September 1, 2025

Suno, an AI music generator, is challenging copyright infringement claims from independent artists with a bold legal stance that will change the debate over AI music. The class action lawsuit, filed by aptly named…

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August 18, 2025

The 19th Amendment granted women in the US the right to vote nationwide on August 18, 1920. Women’s Equality Day, however, is officially observed on August 26th each year. The reason is that even…

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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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May 12, 2025

The Living Wage for Musicians Act, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives as H.R. 7763 by Rep. Rashida Tlaib on March 20, 2024, remains at the "Introduced" stage in the legislative process. This means…