The BANFF World Television Festival, opening this year in Alberta from June 7-10, is a not-for-profit event produced by Achilles Media Ltd., an international events management company serving the television and...
This is in response to Cinema Shill Sony CEO Michael Lynton's article on Huffingtonpost.com. This is Michael Lynton, "I'M A GUY WHO DOESN'T SEE ANYTHING GOOD HAVING COME FROM THE INTERNET, PERIOD." At a panel...
Despite being lowest on the list, Canada has made it onto a United States 'priority watch list' Special 301 report on copyright piracy. Copyright watchdogs are saying the list is just bluster, and call into question the lack of reliable and objective analysis with the...
BBC is taking a bold new approach with a new program called R&D TV: the show will be released under a Creative Commons license, so viewers will not only be able to watch the show, but remix and redistribute it...
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When I stumbled across Kutiman's incredible Thru-YOU series of music videos last week I was totally and completely blown away. Transfixed, I watched all seven videos in succession — then went back to the beginning...
Each new era brings fresh offerings to the creative marketplace in the form of cultural goods, be it through the medium of music, film, art, the written word or cross-disciplinary genres. Likewise, technology is...
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Licensing: working once again to keep creative works out of the public eye. In this case, Google is removing professionally-submitted music videos from its Youtube UK site, having failed to come up with a licensing...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy joins a grand tradition of political leaders calling for stringent intellectual-property laws, and then getting caught for violating those same laws. It's difficult enough to swallow the tortured reasoning behind some of these copyright laws...
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Indian government plans to recognize the practice of yoga as “traditional knowledge” and patent all yoga postures that were ever mentioned in traditional Indian texts to prevent others from monetizing on what...
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This is interesting: "Street demonstrations, netwide campaigns, unfavorable press attention and sustained lobbying have moved the New Zealand government to temporarily suspend its new copyright law, which would...
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The founders of Pirate Bay, the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, have gone on trial in Stockholm, Sweden charged with copyright theft. If convicted, the men could be fined $143,500 and face up to two...
Day three of the trial started with presentation of the amended charges and ended early again with all sides retiring for pizza! " The lawyers representing all four called on the court for the acquittal of their...
Thousands and thousands of $$ have been made from the sale of one of the most recognizable images of Pres. Obama, designed by street artist Shepard Fairey. Now the AP wants credit and compensation; the...
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The whole idea of being a citizen journalist is should not be orientated to making money. It is however to be ready to publish stories on your door step that simple get missed by the media or before they get to the...
Everyone understands that copyright is important but some YouTube users are enraged by the seemingly arbitrary removal or muting of some videos including home videos of sing-alongs and kids playing songs coming out...