Yahoo need not pay Launchcast webcast royalties to Sony, rules court
Yahoo will only be liable to pay licensing fees to SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalties for musicians.
The case dates back to 2001, with a ruling in Yahoo's favour in 2007, but Sony appealed.
The appeal court judges accepted Yahoo's argument that Launchcast didn't give users enough controls for the service to be considered interactive, the deciding factor in whether royalties were due.
Launchcast allows users to create a personalized 'radio station', playing their favourite musical genres. But, said judge Richard Wesley, "This degree of control is no different from a traditional radio listener expressing a preference for a country music station over a classic rock station."
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Yahoo SearchMonkey Adds Facebook Profile Actions Into Search Results
You can see how it looks like in the image above, which shows results for Yahoo marketing VPRaj Gossain. The blue links under his name are the actions you can take. These are similar to the deep links SearchMonkey added to Yahoo Search for Wikipedia results.
The links save you at least one step. But I’ve also noticed that the Facebook profile is often far down the results page. I wonder if this will help to change that. By all rights, Facebook should be the default people search, whether on Facebook or on search engines like Yahoo and Google.

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Times Open: Developers Gather to Discuss The New York Times APIs and more
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big fans of the Times Open strategy, the program that focuses on making the data of The New York Times more accessible to the developer community. We heralded the launch of the program, covered the first available API, and marveled at the access to content the APIs have begun to provide. Now the Times has taken another momentous step forward: bringing developers together for Times Open, the publication's inaugural API seminar...

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