The Idolawyer Gives Us Some Real Talk About Girl Talk [Idolawyer] (1)
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I’ve been asked to comment on Mike Barthel’s excellent “Girl Talk is Not Fair Use,” which appeared on Idolator yesterday. I’m a transactional entertainment lawyer, so I never actually litigate copyrights. Nevertheless, I’m treading in dangerous waters because I often represent copyright owners. I don’t claim to know how federal courts would analyze a hypothetical infringement claim against Girl Talk, a.k.a. Gregg Gillis; historically courts have been inconsistent in applying fair use analysis. I do, ...
Fair Use for Educators - and The Chronicle’s continuing poor coverage (3)
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Today the Center for Social Media officially released its latest in its series of excellent fair use guides, The Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education. It’s must reading for anyone involved in media pedagogy or policy. However, in what has become a trend, I must protest the way the Chronicle of Higher Education covers the story. The first half of the article introduces the report and highlights its usefulness. But ...
Girl Talk Is Not Fair Use [Copyfight] (5)
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Toronto alt-weeklies Eye and Now took sides on Greg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, in warring cover stories last week. Marc Weisblott's piece in Eye takes the "anti-" position, expanding on some of the criticism of copyfighters posted here in recent weeks and raising further questions about the implications of the BoingBoing model for the record industry. Evan Davies' Now piece goes for the "pro," though copyfight supporters might wish he didn't, given ridiculous arguments like ...
孟京辉新戏——《爱比死更冷酷》 (1)
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秋天是北京演出季，各剧场天天上演各类戏剧，古今中外，前卫传统，舞台剧创造出一种梦幻般的互动氛围，使人在黑暗中一坐两小时，内心经历种种个人性感受。 事实上，北京的时尚产业汇总也是从舞台开始，美工们把世界各地的设计潮流搬到舞台上，从WEB2.0，到纯古典，若是喜欢看戏，那么北京一定是中国最宜居住的地方。一些观众从一百元的最后排坐起，看了几年后，坐到一千多元的前排，他们经历了中国经济的繁荣，他们在消费小众文化，并撑起这一个超大城市独有的市场。 孟京辉的戏剧就是在这个过程成长起来的，他拥有一批持久固定的观众，我便是其中之一，此次的《爱比死更冷酷》改编自法德斯宾德的电影，故事是个侦探故事，从标准的侦探故事上讲，笨拙而业余，但若是用是一种戏仿的眼光看，便产生新意，它用于揭示人的犯罪状态，以此隐喻及批评我们的社会环境。 这戏排得够酷，德国表现主义的现代时尚版，用玻璃把舞台与观众隔开，观众需带着耳机看，演员们演什么，夹着电子燥音话外音就在复重地说着什么，就如同那故事是通过遥远的电波穿越时空传来的。舞美做得挺得创意，一个斜顶把舞台空间压至原来的一半，把表演人员挤向观众，灯光设计也很有意思，我看观众反应，总之，技术方面很完美，简而不陋。从始至终，一个个的都特茫然，且全场几无笑声。看了二十分钟后，这种风格被接受了，反正是我觉得挺好看的，中间只有三人离场。 若是一直追看孟京辉话剧，会觉得这戏也挺有意思的，因与他的其它戏不一样，显得很特别，也挺好玩——观众们一部戏接一部戏，从学习摹仿，直到实际运用，越来越娴熟，现在有点熟能生巧了——我们现在终于可以看到孟京辉像穿戴手套一样轻松地摆弄各种戏剧风格了。 推荐——在蜂巢小剧场。
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nora said:
石先生难得写了一篇具有分享意义的文章，终于没有了酸味。本来么，相安无事才是硬道理何必纠葛。
Storied Berlin airport closes (1)
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Berlin's Tempelhof Airport saw its final flights take off yesterday. The aging facility has been closed in anticipation of a major new airport to be built in an outlying area of Berlin. It may have been Orville and Wilbur Wright who brought us the machinery, but you might say Tempelhof is where the magic of flying was born. It opened as the first passenger airport in 1923 and became the largest and most modern airport ...
Can Copyright kill the Internet? (1)
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The question seems extreme, and it is certainly rhetorical. But the potential for copyright challenges to significantly limit the range of activities and services available on the Internet is very real, and severe limits on the full potential for digital communications could be imposed. One of the great strengths of the Internet — its completely international character — is also one of its greatest weaknesses. Since laws change across national boundaries, but the Internet goes ...
Hollywood hates fair use, sues over RealDVD (1)
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Filed under: Home Entertainment We knew Hollywood wouldn't let RealNetworks sell its RealDVD DVD-ripping-and-archiving software without a fight, and right on schedule, six major studios have filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent it from being sold. Of course, RealNetworks has been planning on hiding behind that Kaleidescape ruling all along, but straight CSS circumvention isn't really what's at the heart of the suit: according to the studios' request for a restraining order, consumers won't be ...
Associated Press, les blogs et le "fair use" (1)
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L'histoire est déjà ancienne (à l'échelle du web et de la blogosphère), mais elle mérite que l'on y revienne. Tout débute le 12 juin 2008. Associated Press demande au site Drudge Retort de retirer six articles et un commentaire. Ce site (conçu comme le pendant de "gauche" du Drudge Report) dont le graphisme n'est pas le souci premier, est un site communautaire, comparable à Digg ou Mixx, alimenté par quelque 8 500 internautes.Robert Cadenham, le ...
Strip DRM from Your iTunes Purchases with DoubleTwist [Featured Windows Download] (1)
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Windows only: Freeware application doubleTwist converts your DRM-laden iTunes purchases to DRM-free MP3s that you can play pretty much anywhere. In addition to the DRM-stripping (which really is the marquee feature), doubleTwist is actually a full-fledged tool for sharing music with friends and syncing your iTunes library to any device—currently supporting devices like the PSP and Sony phones, Nokia N-Series phones, Windows Mobile phones, and even the Amazon Kindle. The DRM-stripping isn't lossless (sound degradation ...
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In the last newsletter I sent out, I hinted at several business opportunities that had been presented to me that centered around KC Weather. Since that time, I’ve been working with 3 guys in town to start a new weather consulting company. WE LAUNCH TODAY! I’m very pleased to announce the formation of LRC Weather! - http://LRCWeather... If the name "LRC" sounds familiar, it should. The LRC is the weather theory that Gary Lezak has ...
