Neda Ulaby
Stories
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Will Posting Memes Or Pro Wedding Pics Land You In Copyright Small Claims Court?
Jeff Sedlik's Miles Davis portrait shows up all over the Internet, rarely with his permission, and there's not much he can do to protect himself. Enter the CASE Act, which sounds dull ... but isn't.
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Looking Again At A Doctor's Old Rhymes, Seuss Works Haven't Kept Up With The Times
Dr. Seuss Enterprises has announced it will end publication of six titles deemed to contain racist imagery. The books include And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo.
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Larry Flynt, Porn Mogul And 'Hustler' Founder, Dies At 78
Larry Flynt was a pornographer whose Supreme Court case in 1988 made him a free speech folk hero. Admire him, despise him — or both — Flynt left a singular mark on culture and politics.
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Children's Books That Won Prestigious Awards This Year
Winners of this year's John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals — some of the most prestigious prizes in children's literature — were announced Monday. NPR takes a look at the award-winning books.
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Phil Spector, Legendary Record Producer And Convicted Murderer, Has Died At 81
The famous — even infamous — producer, known for his "Wall of Sound," died Saturday in prison. He produced records for The Ronettes, Ike and Tina Turner as well as The Beatles, among many others.
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Remembering Director Michael Apted
The award-winning English director Michael Apted died Friday.
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Holiday Romcoms Go Beyond Diversity - And Center On New Christmas Stars
2020 has given us an unprecedented number of new Christmas rom-coms centering on characters who used to be, at most, sidekicks in holiday fare.
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Can't Find A Chess Set? You Can Thank 'The Queen's Gambit' For That
Who'd have guessed that a centuries-old game would become 2020's hard-to-find, must-have toy? Sales spiked after the release of the hit Netflix show, and now toy analysts are warning of a shortage.
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Poet Louise Glück Wins 2020 Nobel Prize In Literature
American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, she becomes the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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U.S. Poet Louise Gluck Wins Nobel Prize In Literature
The 2020 prize was awarded to Gluck for what the Swedish Academy said was "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."