The American company Warner/Chappell, which for many years sold the rights to perform the famous song “Happy Birthday to You,” is not itself its copyright holder, a US federal court has ruled. For every use of a famous song in film, television, advertising and public events, the company...
In Donetsk (Rostov Region), a hearing has begun on the case of Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko, accused of involvement in the deaths of Russian journalists in Donbass. The journalists were not allowed into the courtroom at the first session - they were escorted into a neighboring auditorium and a video broadcast was organized. Nadezhda Savchenko is accused of adjusting the shelling in Luhansk on June 17, 2014 ...
Russian citizen Dmitry Smilyanets has pleaded guilty to stealing 160 million bank card data as a result of one of the largest computer network hacks in the United States. Smilianets confessed on September 16 during his trial in federal court in Camden County, New Jersey. A day earlier in the same court ...
Russian hacker from Syktyvkar, Vladimir Drinkman, admitted in an American court to organizing a criminal scheme, which the prosecutor in his case called the largest hack in history. Thanks to the confession, some of the charges against him were dropped, and now Drinkman faces not life imprisonment, but only ...
A transgender Mexican woman won the appeal and was eligible to remain in the United States. The court in San Francisco considered that the woman Edin Avendano-Hernandez - she was born a man, but takes female hormones and dresses like a woman - at home would be at risk of attacks and ...
In the United States, a court ruled to jail Rowan County (Kentucky) clerk Kim Davis, who refused to register same-sex marriage. The court qualified Davis' actions as contempt of the Supreme Court decision, which obliged the clerk to comply with the law. Davis was taken into custody in the courtroom. ...
The United States strongly condemns yesterday's verdict by a Russian military court on well-known Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and activist Alexander Kolchenko on baseless charges of terrorist attacks and other subversive activities in occupied Crimea. This is stated in a statement by the US State Department. In a statement ...
In the center of Moscow, on Seleznevskaya Street, an unknown attacker shot Israeli businessman Vladimir Kriman with a pistol. According to the website LifeNews, the incident occurred on Monday afternoon at the building of the Moscow Regional Arbitration Court. Israeli citizen Vladimir Kriman and his lawyer left ...
After lengthy discussions and discussions about the holding of matches of the Israeli football championship on Saturdays, in connection with numerous requests from players wishing to observe the Sabbath, the District Labor Court ruled to temporarily ban the games on Saturdays. The judgment rendered by the court obliges ...
The Supreme Court of Russia on Thursday will consider a class action lawsuit by lawyer, chairman of the Freedom of Information Foundation Ivan Pavlov, Russian journalists and activists against Vladimir Putin. The plaintiffs demand that the presidential decree, by which he classified the losses of Russian military personnel “in peacetime in...