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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich

Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. is a landmark 1948 New York Supreme Court decision. It was the first case in the United States dealing with moral rights in authorship. The Soviet composers Dmitri Shostakovich (pictured), Aram Khachaturian, Sergei Prokofiev, and Nikolai Myaskovsky sued Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation for using their compositions in the film The Iron Curtain. Although their compositions were in the public domain in the United States, the composers argued that the film violated their moral rights by using their works in a manner contrary to their beliefs. The court rejected the composers' argument, holding that there was no clear standard for adjudicating moral rights and that moral rights conflict with free use of public domain works. The decision has been criticized for misunderstanding moral rights and praised for upholding the right of the public to use public domain works over the rights of authors to censor uses that they disagree with. (Full article...)

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Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo

American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo has recorded songs for two studio albums. Interested in music from a young age, she took vocal lessons in kindergarten. In 2016, Rodrigo and Madison Hu recorded four original songs for Bizaardvark. Rodrigo contributed several songs to the soundtracks of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, including the solo-written "All I Want" (2019) and "The Rose Song" (2021). In early 2020, she began meeting with record labels and subsequently signed with Geffen Records and Interscope Records. Rodrigo wrote material with Dan Nigro, including the song "Drivers License", which was released as her debut single in January 2021 and experienced commercial success. Nigro produced all eleven tracks on her debut studio album, Sour (2021), a pop, pop-punk, alternative-pop, and bedroom-pop album. They continued working together on Rodrigo's second studio album, Guts (2023), which features twelve tracks. It was preceded by the pop rock single "Vampire" (2023). (Full list...)

Portrait of Margaret van Eyck

Portrait of Margaret van Eyck is a 1439 oil-on-wood painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. A portrait of his wife Margaret, it is one of the two latest of van Eyck's surviving paintings, and one of the earliest European artworks to depict a painter's spouse. It was completed when Margaret was around 34 and hung until the early 18th century in the chapel of the guild of painters in Bruges (in present-day Belgium). The work is thought to be a pendant or a diptych panel, with van Eyck himself occupying the other half in either a now lost self-portrait known from records until 1769, or his Portrait of a Man. This portrait of Margaret is now in the collection of the Groeningemuseum in Bruges.

Painting credit: Jan van Eyck

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