Robbie Richardson is 6 years old and wants to be a police officer. So far, he’s off to a good start. The Quincy, Massachusetts, boy watched his father Michael make a right turn on a red light. Robbie told his dad that he would call 911 when they got home to report the infraction. Michael tried to explain that he had made a legal right on red, but Robbie wasn’t kidding around. Michael told the Boston Herald that he had just fired up the barbecue grill when his son came outside and handed him the phone. The Quincy Police Department was on the line, saying Robbie had called them to report him going past the red light. “Oh, no,” Michael told the dispatcher. “I apologize. … we’re good, thank you.” Robbie told the Herald that he had learned traffic light rules in kindergarten, and that he knew to call 911 because the number was written on the side of his toy police car. The Quincy Police Department posted audio of Robbie’s call on their Facebook page. — Richard Binder
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In 1997, German rapper Sabrina Setlur released the song “Nur Mir” (“Only Me”), which featured a two-second snippet of drums from “Metall auf Metall” (“Metal on Metal,”) a 1977 track by electronic music group Kraftwerk. Ralf Hütter, Kraftwerk’s frontman, sued both Setlur and her producer Moses Pelham over the use of the sample, beginning a 19-year court battle. According to The Guardian, the federal court of justice in Germany initially sided with Hütter in 2012, saying that Pelham had infringed Kraftwerk’s intellectual property. The court also noted that Pelham sampled the drums when he apparently could have recorded the same sounds himself. But Pelham and Setlur appealed to the German constitutional court and Hütter’s victory was short-lived. The court reversed, ruling that samples were integral to hip-hop and should be allowed in completely new pieces of music. — Richard Binder
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