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Locking Down Our Culture
“New ideas about the bounds of ‘fair use’ are slowly shifting the blame to antiquated notions of intellectual property, for making copies a crime. Contrary to popular logic, there’s an argument to be made that access to our common culture has never been as restricted as today, when the simple act of circulating a song comes with the threat of a lawsuit.”
Ballet Sneaks Into Fitness Classes
Elements of ballet are seeping into fitness classes as health experts continue beating the drum about the benefits of not just stretching movements but keeping one’s core strong and healthy.
Using Warhol In An Artistic Way
Artists build on other artists’ work. So the Warhol Foundation has a double standard when it comes to the use of Warhol’s work. The Warhol Foundation is “vigorous in enforcing our rights when it comes to people wanting to use Warhol’s art for commercial purposes,” Wachs said. But when it comes to artists and scholars, the rules are very different. “We permit artists to use and reference Warhol work without charge and without challenge.” And “we let scholars use Warhol imagery for just a nominal fee to cover the cost of administering the rights.”
A Plan For UK TV Downloads
The UK has the most illegal downloads of TV shows. There’s no legal downloading system. Now there’s a proposal for TV producers. “They would have a set amount of time, called a ‘primary window’, in which to distribute the show. There would be a second period, or ‘holdback window’, during which broadcasters could restrict what the show’s producers do with it.”
IMAX Puts Up Big Numbers
“In a year when box office receipts were down 5 per cent at mainstream theatres, Imax Corp. saw ticket sales climb 35 per cent in 2005. Much of that increase was driven by the conversion of several Hollywood films to its giant screens.”
Rating The Movie Experience
“Box office may be down, but sales of iPods, Xboxes, cellphones, MP3 players, TiVos and plasma screen TVs are going up. Make that … skyrocketing. People are spending more time every year with entertainment — nearly every new consumer electronics gadget exists to provide it. But with today’s entertainment coming in all sorts of shapes and sizes, two-hour movies are simply no longer the first-choice package.”
The Well-Funded Poets
Three years ago, Ruth Lilly left $175 million to Poetry Magazine, making it the richest literary magazine in the world. So what’s happened since to the cause of poetry?
Italian Filmmakers Protest Berlusconi
There is “a growing movement in Italy’s left-leaning artistic community that has galvanized against the center-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ahead of a general election due in spring. The uprising in the arts includes a string of movies explicitly targeting Berlusconi, whose tight grip on the country’s media through his Mediaset empire provides plenty of ammunition to opponents with concerns about free speech.”
Paper Tiger (Reinventing The News)
“Newspapers used to have a monopoly on information, and it is taking them a long time to get used to the idea that they have lost it. A century ago, in every American city, various Heralds, Timeses, Tribunes and Gazettes may have competed with each other, but as a mass medium, the newspaper enjoyed total primacy. Everything about newspapering is negotiable these days: who writes, who reads, who pays, what should be covered and how. Even as they shovel the daily quota of prose, editors are pondering existential questions. What gives a newspaper its soul?”