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The International Skating Union ruled on this change more than a decade ago.
In Milan, US ice dancers Madison Chok and Evan Bates skated to a medley of Lenny Kravitz songs.
Daphne Backman is the owner and editor-in-chief of IceDance.com.
She says the broadening of musical choices is enabling the sport to connect with younger audiences on social media.
But at this Olympics, copyright problems have become a major headache.
Some competitors, like Russia's Peter Gumenik, had to make last-minute soundtrack changes because they lacked the necessary permissions.
Frederick Wiseman was extremely prolific.
He made roughly 50 documentaries.
Many of them chronicled the inner workings of institutions like the Idaho State Legislature, the New York Public Library and a high school in Philadelphia.
But Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris says Wiseman has more in common with the theatre of the absurd than documentary filmmaking.
Wiseman's first and most notorious work, Titic at Follies, captures the mistreatment of inmates at a Massachusetts prison facility for the criminally insane.
The 1967 film was so shocking, the state of Massachusetts managed to get it banned for more than two decades.
The Motion Picture Association issued a statement condemning TikTok parent company ByteDance, the maker of the just launched AI platform Seed Dance 2.0, for allowing users to create hyper-realistic videos featuring the likenesses of well-known actors and characters, including Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.
Filmmaker Rory Robinson wrote on social media that it only took a two-line prompt to create his star-studded fight video.
He added that Hollywood might be, quote, cooked as a result of the technological advances.
Some industry professionals agreed.
ByteDance did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.