HOW TO BECOME CLAIRVOYANT OUT APRIL. 5, 2011; FEATURES ERIC CLAPTON,
ROBERT
RANDOLPH, TOM MORELLO, STEVE WINWOOD, TRENT REZNOR
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On April 5, 2011, 429 Records will release How To Become Clairvoyant, Robbie Robertson‘s fifth solo
album and his first record in more than 10 years. Guitar virtuosos Eric Clapton (who co-wrote three tracks
with Robertson), Tom Morello and Robert Randolph guest on the album, which Robertson co-
produced with Marius de Vries. How To Become Clairvoyant also features Steve
Winwood and Trent Reznor as well as vocalists Angela McCluskey, Rocco Deluca, Dana
Glover and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes. Bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Ian
Thomas lay down the groove throughout.
On his last two albums, Music for The Native Americans (1994) and Contact from the Underworld of
Redboy (1998), Robertson explored his ancestry. Now, with How To Become Clairvoyant, he takes on
his rock heritage, delivering his first-ever song about leaving The Band, the evocative “This Is Where I Get
Off.” You can preview “When The Night Was Young” off the new album by clicking here.
How to Become Clairvoyant Tracklisting:
1.) Straight Down The Line
2.) When The Night Was Young
3.) He Don’t Live Here No More
4.) The Right Mistake
5.) This Is Where I Get Off
6.) Fear of Falling
7.) She’s Not Mine
8.) Madame X
9.) Axman
10.) Won’t Be Back
11.) How To Become Clairvoyant
12.) Tango For Django
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Google wins search defamation case
Internet giant Google wins landmark high court libel ruling over forum comment displayed in search results
Google is not liable for defamatory comments that appear in news articles, blogs and forums displayed in its search results, a high court judge in London has concluded in a landmark ruling for UK defamation law.
The case, against Google’s US and UK operations, had been brought by London-based Metropolitan International Schools.
MIS runs distance learning courses in games development under the name Train2Game. MIS launched legal action over comments on the forum of a website that it claimed were defamatory and that appeared in Google’s search results.
The company claimed that Google was liable as a publisher of defamatory comments. Google responded that it has no responsibility for the words and comments.
Mr Justice Eady ruled in a judgment in the high court on Friday that Google was a “facilitator” and not a publisher of the content.
“When a snippet is thrown up on the user’s screen in response to his search, it points him in the direction of an entry somewhere on the web that corresponds, to a greater or lesser extent, to the search terms he has typed in,” Eady said. “It is for him to access or not, as he chooses. [Google] has merely, by the provision of its search service, played the role of a facilitator.”
An analysis of the decision by the lawyers Pinsent Masons also noted that the ruling said the Google was not liable as a publisher of defamatory comments even in cases where it had been told that its search results contained potentially libellous comments.
However, Eady did say that Google has a responsibility to block or take down content if it is notified with a legitimate complaint about libellous material.
Struan Robertson, a lawyer at Pinsent Masons, said that this was the first judicial analysis of search engine liability for defamation under UK law. “It is undoubtedly a brilliant result for Google and other search engines,” Robertson concluded.
“We are pleased with this result, which reinforces the principle that search engines aren’t responsible for content that is published on third-party websites,” said a spokeman for Google.
“Mr Justice Eady made clear if someone feels they have been defamed by material on a website then they should address their complaint to the person who actually wrote and published the material, and not a search engine, which simply provides a searchable index of content on the internet,” the spokesman added.
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