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Show Transcript WXII 12 NEWS, BREAKING NEWS. PEOPLE WHO ARE FULLY VACCINATED CAN DO MANY OF THE THINGSCHRISTINE: MENTOR CAPACITY GATHERING LIMITS HAVE BEEN LIFTED IN NORTH CAROLINA. KENNY: SOCIAL DISTANCING REQUIREMENT AND MOST MASK REQUIREMENTS ARE BEING LIFTED AS WELL. CHRISTINE: WE HAVE COVERAGES COVERAGE FROM BUSINESSES MAKING CHANGES. LET’S START WITH LEE ANNE DENYER WHO BREAKS DOWN THE PLACES YOU WILL STILL HAVE TO WEAR A MASK. LEE ANNE: THERE ARE A FEW TO WEAR THE MASK. GENERALLY INDOORS AND OUTDOORS THE STATE SAYS YOU CAN FORGO THE MASK. BUT YOU NEED A MASK IN SITUATIONS THAT INVOLVE KIDS. SCHOOLS ARE ONE PLACE YOU WILL STILL NEED TO WEAR A MASK. DR. MANDY COHEN EXPLAINED HER RATIONALE, STRESSING THAT CHILDREN ARE IN MOST CASES ON VACCINATED AND IN MANY CASES NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE VACCINATED. OTHER PLACES INCLUDE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH CARE SETTINGS, LONG-TERMFACILITIES, A AND HOMELESS SHELTERS.
Fri, May 14th 2021 7:39pm
Timothy Geigner
Famed YouTuber and Twitch streamer Angry Joe, or Jose Antonio Vargas, has made it onto Techdirt s pages in the past. True to his name, we ve discussed his responses on a couple of intellectual property issues he s suffered through. When Nintendo flagged a video Angry Joe did about
Mario Party 10, preventing him from further monetizing the video, he simply and angrily swore off of doing any Nintendo videos in the future, rightly noting that with the decision all the free advertising he d given Nintendo just disappeared. When CBS blocked a review video he did because the review used 13 seconds of
Tue, May 11th 2021 8:03pm
Timothy Geigner
The strange flip-flop by Rockstar Games on being open and cool with its fans continues. By way of context and a bit of throat clearing, recall that Rockstar is both the company that whipped out the ban-hammer on
Grand Theft Auto 5 players over the use of mods, and the company that paid out money to a modder that fixed that same games long loading times. In addition, Rockstar is both the company that happily used intellectual property to try to silence a documentary while also being the company that enthusiastically embraced gamers making short films out of