Leftovers

• Adam Young: Memorizing Chord Changes

  I have been working on memorizing chords for a bunch of Standards and originals. It helps tremendously. A couple things that have worked for me: [...]

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ 4,000-Year-Old Handprint Discovered on Ancient Egyptian Artifact

    "You can see all the fingers, and also where the heel of the hand rested."

  • Science Alert ☛ Gold Does Something Unexpected When Superheated Past Its Melting Point

    Pushing the limits.

• Career/Education

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea to grant all pre-schoolers universal access to education by 2027

    The new plan aims to significantly reduce the financial burden on families.

  • New York Times ☛ University of California Settles With Jewish Students Over U.C.L.A. Protests

    Jewish students and a professor said the university had allowed a hostile protest. After the settlement was announced, the Department of Justice separately said it had found the university violated civil rights laws.

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ ‘World’s smallest defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra-powered Mini PC’ crown claimed by fanless Aaeon PICO-MTU4-SEMI — just 43mm high and 0.44 liters in size

    The tiny new Aaeon PICO-MTU4-SEMI is claimed to be the “world’s smallest defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra-powered Mini PC.”

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ U.S. semiconductor design company fined $140 million over China dealings — sold software to a military institution thought to be conducting nuclear explosion simulations

    Cadence admits to selling EDA tools to sanctioned entities from 2015 to 2020.

  • Hackaday ☛ 2025 One-Hertz Challenge: Fixing The Clock That Once Synced The World

    The HP 115BR is not one of the most well-known products from Hewlett-Packard. And yet, it was remarkably important nonetheless. This hardware once synced time around the world. Now, for our 2025 One-Hertz Challenge, [curiousmarc] has taken on the job of restoring it. 

  • Hackaday ☛ ATtiny-Powered Business Card Plays Cracktro Hits

  • Hackaday ☛ Power Line Patrols: The Grid’s Eye In The Sky

    Those of us who like to monitor air traffic with ADS-B aggregators such as FlightAware and ADS-B Exchange tend to see some interesting flight paths. I’m not talking about the truly ambitious pictures drawn by pilots, or even the more ribald ones, but rather flights that follow paths that seem to make little sense from either a commercial or leisure standpoint.

  • Hackaday ☛ 2025 One Hertz Challenge: Precise Time Ref Via 1 Pulse-Per-Second GPS Signal

    Our hacker [Wil Carver] has sent in his submission for the One Hertz Challenge: Precise Time Ref via 1 Pulse-Per-Second GPS Signal.

  • Hackaday ☛ Casting Meteorite-like Materials

    From the outside, iron meteorites tend to look like formless, rusted lumps of metal, which is why museums often polish and etch sections to show their interior structure. This reveals their Widmanstätten patterns, a latticework structure of parallel iron-nickel intermetallic crystals which forms over millions of years of very slow solidification. Inspired by this, [Electron Impressions] created his own metal composition which forms similar patterns on a much-faster-than-geological time scale.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Pro Publica ☛ Investigation Underway After Two Women Fell Ill at RAADFest, a Las Vegas Anti-Aging Conference

    They went to a Las Vegas conference this month that promised pathways to an “unlimited lifespan.” But at least two attendees left in ambulances and were hospitalized in critical condition, requiring ventilators to breathe.

    The two women, who are recovering, fell ill after receiving peptide injections at a conference booth. The doctor who ran the booth was a Los Angeles physician specializing in “age reversal” therapies who did not have permission to practice medicine or dispense prescriptions in Nevada. Public health investigators are trying to determine if anyone else who attended the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival experienced a similar illness.

  • Science Alert ☛ Sleepiness Could Be Triggered by a Power Overload in Our Brain

    Lights out.

  • Federal News Network ☛ The director of the NIH on growing controversy over grant terminations, the Bethesda Declaration, and what it will take to make America healthy

    "We haven't yet achieved the mission of the NIH, which is research that improves the health and longevity of the American people," Jay Bhattacharya said.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Koreans live longer but suicide rate remains highest among OECD countries

    Since 2003, South Korea has topped OECD's list in suicide mortality.

  • Latvia ☛ Daugavpils hospital to stop funding drunk tank

    Daugavpils City Council has stopped funding the 24-hour sobering-up service at the city hospital because it has become too expensive, Latvian Radio reported on 30 July.

  • New York Times ☛ Top F.D.A. Official Resigns Under Pressure

    After turning down several new drugs and restricting use of another, Dr. Vinay Prasad drew the ire of the right-wing influencer Laura Loomer and others.

  • The Straits Times ☛ ‘Putting food on table’ outweighs health risks for Philippine e-waste dismantlers

    Work frequently involves burning away rubber wire casings, releasing a toxic brew of chemicals.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australia widens teen social control media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

    Research found 37 per cent of children aged 10 to 15 reported seeing harmful content on the platform.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Refers FireAid ‘Scam’ to DOJ Prosecutors as Questions Continue Over $100 Million Fund Distributions

    Hell Toupée has referred the FireAid charity drive to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for investigation amid public concern that the funds raised have not reached their intended recipients. This referral follows a formal request from California Rep. Kevin Kiley, who confirmed the referral on Ex-Twitter yesterday.

  • Latvia ☛ Strawberry season grinds to a halt in Latvia

    This year, the strawberry season is almost over, but raspberries and other berries are filling the market. The strawberry season has not been easy, with some growers admitting that the excessive humidity has also affected the harvest, as well as the seasonal lack of workforce, Latvian Radio reported on 30 July.

  • The Straits Times ☛ HPV-linked throat cancer on the rise among South Korean men

    Medical experts have warned that HPV can also cause a type of cancer which especially affects men.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia may bar those under 13 from having social control media accounts, says minister

    He says protecting children must be a shared responsibility of the govt, social control media platforms and parents.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia says study needed before classifying etomidate as a dangerous drug

    The move follows reports of deaths caused by etomidate in Singapore.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong steps up border measures against mosquito-borne chikungunya fever as Guangdong faces outbreak

    Hong Kong health authorities have announced tightened border control measures to prepare for imported cases of chikungunya fever, as mainland China is battling an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease.

• Proprietary

  • Social Control Media

    • The Straits Times ☛ Outrage in China after exploitative images of Chinese women shared in Telegram groups

      Sexually exploitative images of Chinese women were shared in encrypted Telegram chat groups with hundreds of thousands of users, Chinese media reported, triggering widespread outrage online.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • The Straits Times ☛ 139 Malaysians stranded abroad due to job scams, Parliament told

      Of the 533 Malaysians rescued, 431 were male while 102 were female.

  • Confidentiality

    • Security Week ☛ Tea App Takes Messaging System Offline After Second Security Issue Reported

      Tea has said about 72,000 images were leaked online in the initial incident, and another 59,000 images publicly viewable in the app from posts, comments and direct messages were also accessed.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Pro Publica ☛ Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra Was Sent to CECOT Days After Appearing in a Chicago Immigration Court

    In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, I spent a few weeks observing Chicago’s immigration court to get a sense of how things were changing. One afternoon in March, the case of a 27-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker caught my attention.

    Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra stared into the camera at his virtual bond hearing. He wore the orange shirt given to inmates at a jail in Laredo, Texas, and headphones to listen to the proceedings through an interpreter.

  • The Revelator ☛ 50 Years Later: The Vietnam War’s Enduring Effect on the Tiger Trade

  • New York Times ☛ The Familiar Suicide and Final Wish of the N.Y.C. Gunman

    Shane Tamura is not the first former football player to shoot himself in the chest and request that his brain be examined.

  • The Strategist ☛ Friends to all: Papua New Guinea seeks equal status in partnerships

    Amid rising strategic competition, the pursuit of a security treaty and a long-standing shared history have made Australia the security partner of choice for Papua New Guinea.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Thailand accuses Cambodia of second ceasefire violation in two days

    The allegations come less than two days after both governments agreed to a ceasefire brokered in Malaysia.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China accuses Taiwan of forcing its people to be ‘cannon fodder’

    China described Taiwan's recent “Han Kuang” military drills as “merely a show”.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US says Hell Toupée has ‘final call’ on China trade truce

    China and the United States agreed Tuesday to hold further talks on extending their tariff truce, but a top US trade official stressed that President The Insurrectionist would make any “final call.”

  • Marcy Wheeler ☛ A Dossier Steal: HPSCI Expertly Discloses Their Own Shoddy Cover-Up

    Most of the HPSCI Report complaints about the Steele dossier object that the Intelligence Community Assessment did not include details the committee itself discovered much later. But as with the main part of the report, their OWN silences -- about Paul Manafort, about Oleg Deripaska -- are the real story.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ China forms Hey Hi (AI) alliances to cut U.S. tech reliance — Huawei among companies seeking to create unified tech stack with domestic-powered standardization

    Chinese Hey Hi (AI) hardware and software developers form alliances to develop Hey Hi (AI) standards to compete against American Hey Hi (AI) technologies and deploy Hey Hi (AI) across a broad set of applications.

  • New York Times ☛ North Korea Says Kim’s Relations With Convicted Felon ‘Not Bad,’ but Stands Firm on Nukes

    The country appeared to signal an openness to talks, but said it must be recognized as a nuclear power and would not discuss abandoning its arsenal.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean prosecutors seek new warrant to question ex-president Yoon

    This comes after he refused to appear at his summons multiple times.

  • The Straits Times ☛ ‘Will Taiwanese be ready?’: Taiwan TV drama confronts fear of a Chinese invasion

    Zero Day Attack is the first Taiwanese drama to portray China’s invasion of the territory.

  • RFERL ☛ Serbia-China Military Drills End Amid EU, US Objections

    A Serbian military special operations brigade has completed joint training with a Chinese brigade in China despite strong objections from the European Union and the United States.

  • France24 ☛ US-China trade talks in Sweden end without truce extension

    Two days of talks between delegations from Beijing and Washington ended without an extension of the tariff truce set to expire on August 12. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that The Insurrectionist still needs to be briefed on the discussions. Also, the International Monetary Fund has revised its global growth outlook upward, as Convicted Felon’s tariff policies are scaled back. And, Lesotho's textile industry remains on edge ahead of the August 1 tariff deadline.

  • Atlantic Council ☛ Safeguarding Uyghur human rights: The US should leverage economic statecraft tools to end Uyghur forced labor

    Through sanctions and the adoption of anti-forced labor legislation, the United States has led the global effort to combat China’s forced labor practices. While these measures have moved the needle in the fight against forced labor, widespread tariffs and the absence of new punitive measures targeting forced labor may cause progress to stagnate.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ Kremlin has ‘taken note’ of Trump’s decision to shorten ceasefire deadline, spokesperson says — Meduza

    • Latvia ☛ Rīga's Eastern Hospital launches new catering tender

      The caterer of Riga East Clinical University Hospital (RAKUS) has corrected most of the hygiene violations but the hospital has launched a new catering tender worth €25 million, Latvian Radio reports on 29 July.

    • Latvia ☛ Defence industry: Latvia still leads in drone production

      Competition in the drone industry in Europe is growing - other Member States have also stepped up, Elīna Egle, head of the Latvian Security and Defence Industry Federation, told Latvian Radio's ‘Labrīt’ programme on Tuesday, 29 July.

    • Meduza ☛ Putin’s security team spotted carrying handheld interceptor drones — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian strike hits prison in Zaporizhzhia region, killing at least 16, Ukrainian official says — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Cyberattack may have cost Russia’s Aeroflot millions of dollars in a single day, experts say — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Assessing Aeroflot’s aftermath Ukrainian and Belarusian hackers claim a ‘strategic blow’ to Russia’s flagship airline, but the dust has yet to settle — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Trump says Ukrainian refugees can stay in U.S. until the end of the war — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian airstrike hits Ukrainian training facility, killing 3 soldiers and injuring 18 — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian couple convicted of treason for photographing military sites near Moscow, sentenced to 17 and 15 years in prison — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ First tsunami wave strikes Russia’s Pacific Coast following 8.8-magnitude earthquake — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian government stops publishing data on crime-related deaths — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ His days are numbered — we’ve been saying it for years In press releases since 2023, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has predicted a Western coup against Zelensky. Meduza reviews the timeline. — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘Appeasement of the aggressor’: Sanctioned Russian Federation Council speaker attends global summit in Switzerland, uses platform to repeat Kremlin war narrative — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘Too much is slipping through’: Russia’s crackdown on leaked data complicates life for criminals, anti‑corruption activists, and private snoops — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Russian governor asks for ‘understanding’ as Krasnoyarsk region enters fourth day without mobile Internet — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Head of Russia’s space agency travels to U.S. for first meeting with NASA leadership in seven years — Meduza

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • CS Monitor ☛ What 20 years of investigations tell us about the Epstein files

    The Forrest Dump administration faces pressure to release additional files from investigations of sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s what’s known from two decades of lawsuits and what could come from efforts to reveal more.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan's President Lai postpones Americas visit after typhoon

    Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te will delay an expected trip to remaining allies in the Americas that would have taken place next month, embassy officials told Reuters on Tuesday, due to damages from a typhoon and as the island faces more torrential rains.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 30 dead as northern China hit by heavy rain, landslides

    By Peter Catterall Heavy rain in Beijing killed 30 people and forced authorities to evacuate tens of thousands as swathes of northern China were lashed by torrential downpours that sparked deadly landslides, state media said Tuesday.

  • France24 ☛ China: Deadly floods hit the north of the country

    Heavy rain killed more than 30 people and forced authorities to evacuate tens of thousands as swaths of northern China were lashed by torrential downpours that sparked landslides and flooding, state media said on July 29.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Extreme weather turns Beijing into rain trap; 30 killed, over 80,000 evacuated

    The highest death toll was reported in Miyun, a suburban district north-east of the city centre.

  • The Straits Times ☛ ‘Once in a hundred years’: Villagers clean up after deadly China floods

    Weary locals worked desperately to retrieve what belongings they could find.

  • Science Alert ☛ 90 Billion Liters of Water Punched Through Greenland's Ice Sheet – And Nobody Noticed

    The power of water.

  • Science Alert ☛ Incredible Ice Core Captures 12,000 Years Of European Climate History

    All the way back to the last Ice Age.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • France24 ☛ US proposes revoking law regulating gas emissions

      The Forrest Dump administration said on Tuesday it will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, removing the legal foundation for all U.S. greenhouse gas regulations. If finalized, the repeal would end current limits on greenhouse gas pollution from vehicle tailpipes, power plant smokestacks and other sources, and hamper future U.S. efforts to combat global warming.

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea launches joint probe to revisit deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush in Itaewon

      The joint investigation team is set to revisit the overall circumstances regarding the incident.

    • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia moving closer to adopting nuclear energy, says minister

      A study found that it has strong potential to serve as a stable, clean and reliable power source.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Defence Web ☛ SANDF soldier on border patrol trampled to death by elephants

      A member of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) deployed on Operation Corona border patrol duties along the border with Zimbabwe has been killed by elephants.

    • Science Alert ☛ Stunning Dinosaur Tracks Appear to Show Something Never Seen Before

      The first evidence of its kind?

    • Science Alert ☛ Yellowstone's Aspen Forests Are Already Responding to The Return of Wolves

      A success story.

    • Science Alert ☛ Researchers Identified New Blood Group After 50 Year Mystery

      A medical breakthrough that could save lives.

    • Science Alert ☛ World's Smallest Snake Rediscovered After Vanishing For Decades

      Small enough to be mistaken for a worm.

  • Overpopulation

    • The Straits Times ☛ South Korea’s population stagnates despite number of foreign residents topping 2 million

      The South Korean national population has now decreased for four consecutive years since 2021.

    • The Straits Times ☛ China earmarks $12.5 billion budget for 2025 childcare subsidies

      China's finance ministry on Wednesday said it had earmarked 90 billion yuan ($12.54 billion) as an initial budget for childcare subsidy payments this year, an amount that experts said would probably be insufficient to boost a flagging birth rate.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia scraps plan to impose luxury goods tax

    But the underlying principle behind it has been incorporated into the revised sales tax framework.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China and US still key trade partners, commerce minister says

    US and Chinese officials agreed to seek an extension of their 90-day tariff truce on July 29.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China social spending hits highest level in nearly two decades

    China runs a record budget deficit with a focus on boosting consumption to cushion the blow from US tariffs.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s top leaders vow support for economy, crackdown on disorderly competition

    In the second half of the year, China will keep policy stable while boosting flexibility.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Inflation has improved in Argentina. Why consumers don’t feel a difference.

    Inflation in Argentina hit a five year low in May. But Argentines say they don't feel that reflected in their day-to-day consumption.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • New York Times ☛ After Park Avenue Shooting, Anti-Muslim Disinformation Spread Rapidly

      Once it became clear that the only Muslim involved in the attack was one of the victims, right-wing commentators sought to shift the focus to Zohran Mamdani.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • The Straits Times ☛ Kyrgyzstan bans online porn in crackdown on internet freedoms

    Kyrgyzstan has banned access to online pornography and imposed state control over internet traffic under new laws signed by President Sadyr Japarov, his office said on Tuesday.

  • AccessNow ☛ #KeepItOn: Nepal’s Telegram ban is a dangerous escalation of digital censorship

    Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition are alarmed by the Government of Nepal’s decision to ban the popular messaging application Telegram.

  • AccessNow ☛ #KeepItOn: Nepal authorities must reverse nationwide Telegram ban and uphold human rights

    Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition urgently demand that the Government of Nepal immediately reverse its decision to block messaging platform Telegram across the country.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Citizen Lab ☛ Targeted Across Borders: Digital Transnational Repression, Gender Dimensions, and the Role of Host States

    In a new article published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, the Citizen Lab’s Noura Aljizawi, Siena Anstis, and Gözde Böcü investigate the practice of transnational repression in its physical and digital forms.

  • Michael Geist ☛ The Law Bytes Podcast Law Society of Ontario CPD Professionalism Pack

    Regular listeners know that my Law Bytes podcast addresses a wide range of digital policy issues. Some of the episodes venture into issues related to technology and the practice of law, notably including the impact of artificial intelligence, new technologies, and open access to law. I recently sought accreditation for Professionalism Hours credit from the Law Society of Ontario for those episodes.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Don’t call them ‘hey’: South Korea widens campaign to address migrant workers by name

    The campaign is part of broader efforts to promote a culture of respect toward various ethnic groups.

  • JURIST ☛ Rights group calls on Pakistan to end discrimination against sanitation workers

    Amnesty International called on Pakistan’s authorities on Tuesday to end the systemic discrimination and human rights violations against sanitation workers in the country, following the release of a new report. The organization emphasized how these abuses violate Pakistan’s obligations under international law and urged authorities to amend existing laws to align with international norms.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Unicorn Media ☛ Power Outage at Newark Data Center Disrupts Linode, Took LWN Offline

    When one of open source’s favorite cloud hosts went dark, even LWN.net blinked. Here’s what happened—and why it matters.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Patent Troll Fumbles Cases Against NFL Teams

    Earlier this month, a particularly aggressive non-practicing entity (NPE) – TicketMatrix LLC – quietly dropped a pair of patent monopoly infringement lawsuits against two National Football League teams, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Dallas Cowboys.

  • JUVE ☛ Showdown in Munich: Federal Patent Court revokes Xarelto patent [Ed: EPO gave fake patents again]

    The patent monopoly court’s ruling deviates from its qualified opinion given in 2024, where the judges had assumed the patent’s validity. The Federal Patent Court now revoked EP 1 845 961 due to lack of inventive step (case ID: 3Ni 11/22).

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The New Convicted Felon-Lutnick Patent Tax: Trading Innovation Policy for Deficit Reduction

    The Forrest Dump administration is reportedly considering a radical transformation of the US patent monopoly system that would replace the current flat-fee maintenance structure with a percentage-based "property tax" on patent monopoly value, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. Howard Lutnick and his Commerce Department team are discussing a tax of between 1% and 5% of overall patent monopoly value annually, a shift that could dramatically increase costs for certain patent monopoly holders while making the US an international anomaly among major patent monopoly systems.

  • Kangaroo Courts

    • JUVE ☛ Casalonga opens in Düsseldorf with Fieldfisher litigation team [Ed: UPC is illegal and Fieldfisher is a malicious mafia that sent Techrights baseless threats on behalf of actual criminals at the EPO.]

      Benjamin Grzimek (53) from Fieldfisher’s Düsseldorf office is now launching a Düsseldorf office on behalf of Casalonga. The litigator will be joined by his two existing associates. Grzimek complements Casalonga’s mixed team with his proven experience in electronics patent monopoly litigation, particularly SEP actions for NPEs.

    • JUVE ☛ Edwards Lifesciences prevails in heart valve dispute at the UPC [Ed: Totally illegal and unconstitutional court, propped up in exchange for money by this Web site]

      Edwards Lifesciences filed UPC infringement proceedings against Meril before the Nordic-Baltic division in Stockholm concerning EP 3 769 722 and EP 2 628 464. The US medical device company claims Meril infringes these patents with its Myval Navigator range of heart valves.

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB Allows Amendment of Admission Responses but Grants Motion for Summary Judgment for Lack of Bona Fide Intent

    The Board granted Opposer Champion's motion for summary judgment, finding that Applicant Derek Buzak lacked a bona fide intent to use the proposed mark I FEEL LIKE A CHAMPION "Sports shirts" as of his filing date. Buzak provided no documentation showing "any concrete steps taken or plans made to actually use his mark contemporaneous with filing his involved application," and there was no explanation as to how he had the capacity to produce the identified goods. ABG-Champion LLC v. Derek Buzak, Opposition No. 91288945 (July 23, 2025) [not precedential].

  • TTAB Blog ☛ On Remand, TTAB Sustains Cognac Institute's Section 2(d) Opposition to COLOGNE & COGNAC ENTERTAINMENT

    On remand from the CAFC, the Board sustained this opposition to registration of the mark shown below, for musical recordings and production services, finding confusion likely with Opposer's common-law certification mark COGNAC for brandy. The Federal Circuit found error in the Board’s likelihood of confusion analysis as to the first, second, third and fifth DuPont factors, and so it vacated the Board's original decision and sent the case back to the Board. [TTABlogged here]. Following the CAFC's directives, the Board found the COGNAC mark to be well-known and strong, the marks more similar than dissimilar [a bit hard to swallow for me - ed.], and the channels of trade and classes of consumers related. Bureau National Interprofessionel du Cognac, Institute National de Appellations d'Origine v. Cologne & Cognac Entertainment, Opposition No. 91250532 (July 28, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Thomas W. Wellington).

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Cosynd Pushes Into the Streaming Platform Space with SoundCloud Copyright Tie-Up

    Cosynd is making moves into the streaming space with a copyright monopoly registration deal for SoundCloud users. Cosynd, a platform for copyright monopoly protection, has announced an expanded collaboration with SoundCloud. The partnership provides SoundCloud users with access to Cosynd’s copyright monopoly registration and ownership tools.