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YouTube now lets creators add and remix music videos in their Shorts. In its post announcing the feature, YouTube points out that creators can use music videos from artists like Beyoncé and Maggie Rogers — even as TikTok fights with the record label representing them. The timing suggests it’s a direct response to TikTok’s current music licensing battle.The new option is a win for YouTube, which currently gives users access to UMG’s libraries as TikTok battles with the label. TikTok currently doesn’t offer the ability to…

And it probably won't eliminate truly creative jobs In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of artists and writers stayed at a run-down hotel in Paris that came to be known as the The Beat Hotel. Their proximity to one another produced some incredibly creative artistic cross-pollination. The Beat-generation creatives living there were experimenting with drugs, sex and creativity, and setting the stage for the countercultural revolution that came later. One artist living at the…

The poet Emily Dickinson, as revamped by the Apple TV+ series Dickinson, is a spirited horny teen who throws ragers when the parents are away, hooks up with her sister-in-law, speaks in 21st-century slang and twerks to Carnage’s “I Like Tuh.” The Russian empress Catherine the Great, as revamped by the Hulu series The Great, can drop F-bombs just as easily as wax poetic. She likens one particularly intense orgasm to “being shot from a cannon into the darkest sky and watching stars blink on in their thousands around you.”…