The creation and distribution of content must have equal access for all.
Reading this post by Jay Rosen in PressThink this morning, it sure is clear the Film Biz is besieged with many of the same problems and misconceptions as Journalism is. My thoughts below are a reflection through my lens of what Rosen wrote on his site:
Good stories are built on commitment & focus — which is very hard to do when you have to do something else to earn a living. We can’t just rely on each
TorrentFreak reported last week:
One of the most comprehensive studies into media sharing and consumption habits in the United States and Germany reveals that nearly half of the populations have copied, shared or downloaded music, movies, and TV shows. Sharing occurs both on- and offline, but the latter is seen as reasonable by most people. The report does, however, reveal that online file-sharers consume more music than their non-file-sharing counterparts.
Today the American Assembly, a non-partisan public policy forum affiliated with Columbia University, published
The other week I tweeted:
Any time a film is shown outside a person’s personal home, the screening is considered “public”& u must license the rights.
I expected not much of a response, but it got some retweets & favs. I fell into this subject courtesy of the Art House Convergence google group (always a fountain of information!). My tweet was abbreviated from
Two days before THE INVISIBLE WAR got an Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary (i.e. today), Congress announced it would hold a hearing on sexual abuse in the Military.
When it becomes more and more difficult for our mainstream media to examine complex issues in depth and with true soul, it is left to
“Documentary filmmakers have won a ruling from the U.S. Copyright Office that allows them to legally break the encryption codes of DVDs and online streaming content to obtain clips for their projects.
The material still must fall under the “fair use” exemption of copyright law, but the decision by Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante was hailed as a victory for non-fiction filmmakers seeking high-quality clips for their movies. The decision also allows educators and multimedia e-book authors, as well as makers of non-commercial videos, to circumvent copy-protection software to obtain such clips, although the use has to be limited in scope.” (Read the whole article)
I have long dreamed of a day when I have a wealth of titles akin to Adam Curtis’s THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES and Sophie Fiennes’ THE PERVERTS GUIDE TO CINEMA. I love video essays and could appreciate a whole lot more of them.
Culture is built upon itself. We need to be able to remix it. It just can’t be taken — we need to use it to add to the dialogue. We return value when we use it fairly.
Although this ruling doesn’t advance Fair Use, at least it gets rid of a substantial barrier.
A moving and fun speech by Lana Wachowski
How is this for a policy?
In the event that an employee does not have sufficient time outside of working hours to vote in a state or nationwide election,
