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Submission + - NBC Erases SNL Sketch From Digital Archive For Fear Of Copyright Lawsuit (idigitaltimes.com)

Submitted by

M.Nunez

on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @05:32PM

M.Nunez writes: "The digital "Saturday Night Live" archive does not feature a recent Bruno Mars sketch because it includes impersonations of pop singers and their chart-topping hits. Bruno Mars sings several songs that are not owned by NBC, so it can be presumed that the company refrained from uploading the sketch into its digital archive to avoid any legal issues.

Convoluted music licensing laws have essentially erased the Bruno Mars sketch from the digital archives of SNL. In the short comedy sketch, Bruno Mars impersonates vocal performances by Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Louis Armstrong, and Michael Jackson. The sketch cannot be found on NBC.com or Hulu, as a short clip or in either full editions of the episode."

Comment Has anyone in the US tried this? (Score 2, Interesting) 353

by Jck_Strw on Friday April 09, 2010 @01:19PM (#31791622) Attached to: PS3 Owner Refunded For Missing "Other OS"

With Amazon, Sony, Target, whomever.

Submission + - Simple chemical trick to boost battery efficiency

Submitted by space_mongoose on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @08:04PM

space_mongoose writes: Hitachi reckons that a simple chemical additive could significantly improve battery life. Alkaline batteries have a positive electrode of manganese oxide and a negative electrode of finely powdered zinc, but zinc oxide forms around these grains of zinc. Hitachi's solution is to replace the zinc with a fine powder of zinc-aluminium alloy, displaces the zinc within the zinc oxide layer making it a much better conductor.

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