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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging lawmakers to support the Obama administration’s [...]
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Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
" Outcries on the lack of transparency in the ACTA negotiations are a distraction. "
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EXCESS COPYRIGHT (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's been widely via Reuters reported that: Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact , UNICEF said on Friday. Somalia and the United States have long been the last hold-outs to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly exactly 20 years ago. The...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sherwin Siy (one of the few people who actually was allowed to glance briefly at parts of the proposed ACTA treaty, though under strict NDA) has written about yet another letter sent by the entertainment industry to the government in support of ACTA. This letter includes pretty much everyone who benefits from abusing copyright laws and is afraid of the internet: Advertising Photographers of America...
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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The MPAA really, really doesn't like the fact that the secret ACTA negotiatons got leaked, and the public can see what they are proposing. Does the head of the MPAA, Dan Glickman, fight on the facts? Does he make an intellectual argument? No, he pulls out a strawman and has at it: "Opponents of ACTA are either indifferent to this situation, or actively hostile toward efforts to improve copyright...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That's certainly expected—ACTA contains a host of goodies for Hollywood and the recording industry—but what came as a surprise was Glickman's irritation at various...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
You might think that movies featuring bare-breasted starlets are more likely to blow up at the box office. But as Tom Jacobs notes in Miller-McCune , that perception suggests you might not be "keeping abreast* of the latest research." Analyses of 914 films released between 2001 and 2005 indicated that sex and nudity do not, on the average, boost box office performance, earn critical acclaim...
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Engadget HD (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
There's been an unbelievable amount of internet chatter about the MPAA's petition to the FCC that would allow them to turn off the component inputs on cable boxes on certain content . And while we don't think this is a good idea on so many levels, we aren't willing to lie to garner support. But evidently others are, as you see headlines and online petitions with subjects like, don't let the MPAA turn...
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Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Hollywood urged key lawmakers Thursday to support trade negotiations that would set rules for policing copyright laws. The Motion Picture Association of America wrote a letter to several lawmakers including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Va.) and House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, asking them to support the Obama administration's efforts in the trade talks, which...
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Flicks 21 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Plot Summary movie "2012" Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. "2012" is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. 2012 Movie Detail Studio : Columbia Pictures (Sony) MPAA Rating : Not Available Starring : John...
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The Hot Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Drip, Drip, Drip The main variation in the 2009/10 Oscar season that keeps getting discussed is the change to 10 nominees. And it's not insignificant. But as the Chinese curse goes, "May you live in interesting times." As the Academy made this change, the economy of the film business started to bottom out. (Sadly, I don't think we've quite reached bottom yet, though many businesses have...
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Entertainment & Sports Safari (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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Entertainment & Sports Safari (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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Technically Overboard (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/pirate-bay-kills-its-own-bittorrent-tracker.ars Surprisingly though they're still serving up the goods - instead of a tracker they've decentralized into magnet links .... and it all still works. In place of tracking comes distributed hash tables (DHT), which have been implemented for years by most leading BitTorrent clients. Instead of obtaining .torrent...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Here are the new MPAA ratings from BULLETIN NO: 2096. Betty Anne Waters Rated R For language and some violent images. Creation Rated PG-13 For some intense thematic material. Release Date: January 22, 2010 The Dolphin – Story Of A Dreamer Rated PG For some mild scary action and brief rude humor. Dread Rated R For strong bloody violence, disturbing sadistic content, graphic sexuality, [...]