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- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Minnesota Advisory Committee: Radio Consolidation
Government Record · 2003
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights / Minnesota Advisory Committee
Minnesota Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2003: after the 1996 Act, the number of commercial radio owners fell by about 1,700, a…
- U.S. Copyright Office: How Songwriters, Composers and Performers Get Paid (2022)
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Copyright Office
U.S. Copyright Office guide to how musicians get paid: for digital radio royalties, labels get 50 percent, featured artists 45 percent, and backup musicians and singers…
- U.S. Right to Know: American Council on Science and Health
Document · 2023
U.S. Right to Know (usrtk.org)
U.S. Right to Know, an advocacy group, 2023: compiles funding records showing the American Council on Science and Health took money from tobacco, chemical, food and…
- UN Commission of Inquiry: Legal Analysis of Genocide, A/HRC/60/CRP.3 (2025)
Document · 2025
UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
UN Commission of Inquiry, September 2025: concludes there are "reasonable grounds to conclude" Israel committed genocidal acts in Gaza from October 2023 to July 2025, finding…
- UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Report Addendum on Manning (2012)
Document · 2012
Juan E. Méndez, United Nations Special Rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez, March 2012: concluded that seriously punitive detention conditions for someone not yet found guilty violated Manning's rights and presumption…
- Understanding the Phenomenon of Binge-Watching—A Systematic Review
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020
Jolanta A. Starosta; Bernadetta Izydorczyk
2020 review of binge-watching research: most viewing is ordinary entertainment, but heavy viewing can show signs of behavioral addiction. Few long-term studies exist.
- Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (2026)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and federal agencies
Federal Register, August 2026: the government's 2026 agenda of planned regulatory actions. A planning document, not a final FCC ownership rule, showing the ownership review was…
- United Nations: Population and Fertility Rates (World Population Prospects 2024)
Government Record · 2024
United Nations; World Population Prospects 2024 Revision
United Nations population data (2024): the world's fertility rate is 2.25 births per woman, one child fewer than a generation ago, and still falling.
- United States v. Assange: Court Docket and Judgment Entry (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands; CourtListener reproduction
Court docket for United States v. Assange, June 2024: records the judgment on one count, 62 months with credit for time served, and a $100 special…
- United States v. Assange: Plea Agreement (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
United States and Julian Paul Assange
Plea agreement filed in federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, June 2024: Assange agreed to plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to obtain and…
- United States v. AT&T (1982)
Court Filing · 1982
U.S. District Court, D.D.C. (Greene, J.)
Federal court in Washington, D.C., August 1982: Judge Harold Greene approved the consent decree breaking up AT&T and spinning off its 22 local Bell telephone companies.
- United States v. IBM (1982)
Court Filing · 1982
U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. (Edelstein, J.)
Federal court in New York, 1982: records the end of the government's 13-year monopoly case against IBM. The Justice Department and IBM filed to dismiss it…
- United States v. Manning: Army Court of Criminal Appeals (2018)
Court Filing · 2018
U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals; FindLaw reproduction
U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, May 2018: records Chelsea Manning's 35-year sentence and that the President commuted it in January 2017 to time served plus…
- United States v. Microsoft (D.C. Cir. 2001)
Court Filing · 2001
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Federal appeals court, June 2001, full court: upheld the finding that Microsoft illegally maintained its monopoly, but threw out the order breaking up the company, removed…
- United States v. Moalin: Ninth Circuit Opinion (2020)
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 2020: held that the NSA's phone metadata collection went beyond what Congress authorized and violated FISA. Whether…
- United States v. Ring LLC: Complaint (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
Federal Trade Commission
The Justice Department and FTC complaint against Amazon's Ring: any employee or contractor could watch customers' private videos, and one employee viewed thousands of videos of…
- United States v. Ring LLC: Proposed Stipulated Order (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Federal Trade Commission
The proposed court order in the Ring case: Ring neither admits nor denies the charges, must delete improperly used data and must have independent privacy audits.
- United States v. Snowden: Criminal Complaint (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
Federal Bureau of Investigation; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
FBI criminal complaint filed under seal in Virginia, June 2013: charges Edward Snowden with theft of government property and two crimes of sharing classified intelligence information.…
- Universal Music Group and TikTok: New Global Licensing Agreement (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Universal Music Group and TikTok
Universal and TikTok, May 2026: a new multi-year global agreement continuing the partnership.
- Universal Music Group and TikTok: New Licensing Agreement (2024)
Corporate Filing · 2024
Universal Music Group and TikTok
Universal and TikTok, May 2024: a new licensing deal returned Universal's music to TikTok.
- Universal Music Group: Artists at the 65th Grammy Awards (2023)
Corporate Filing · 2023
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group, February 2023: Sam Smith and Kim Petras won the Grammy for "Unholy."
- Universal Music Group: Major Shareholders (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Universal Music Group N.V.
Universal Music Group's shareholder list (September 2026): Bolloré 18.4 percent, Vivendi 12.4 percent, Tencent 11.5 percent, BlackRock about 3 percent. UMG has been a separate public…
- Universal Music Group: Why We Must Call Time Out on TikTok (2024)
Corporate Filing · 2024
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group's January 2024 open letter pulling its music from TikTok, accusing it of paying a fraction of what other platforms pay. UMG's side of…
- USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, Public Law 114-23 (2015)
Government Record · 2015
U.S. Congress
U.S. Congress, June 2015: the USA FREEDOM Act, Public Law 114-23, changed the rules for collecting business records and other surveillance, after the court fights over…