“Nothing will happen until jurisdictions relax regulations that currently don’t allow gatherings of 20 or more people. Anticipating that will happen in a month or two, here are some of the key issues that are being figured out right now in film and TV production,” including health testing, tool use, clothing on set, craft services, doors, and crucially, insurance. – Deadline
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Post An Image You Own On Instagram And You Lose Exclusive Rights To It, Says U.S. Federal Court
The ruling, which could make a difference for websites that use material originally posted on social media such as Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, sidesteps what has been called “the server test” and concentrates on Instagram’s Terms of Use. Timothy B. Lee explains. – Ars Technica
Not Only Is Albinoni’s Adagio A Movie Cliché, It’s A Total Forgery
A musicologist named Remo Giazotto wrote a monograph on Albinoni in which he claimed to have discovered manuscript fragments by the Venetian Baroque composer, fragments from which he reconstructed the overworked now-famous Adagio. “It sounds too good to be true. And it is.” Cinema and early music maven Donald Greig (who for many years sang with the Tallis Scholars) gives us the real story. – The Guardian
Margaret Atwood Has Created A Puppet Version Of Poe’s ‘The Masque Of The Red Death’
“The novelist is to be a guest on Mary Beard’s BBC Two arts show Front Row Late, hosted in lockdown from the study in Beard’s house. Atwood’s contribution is what Beard calls a ‘very surprising’ version of Poe’s horror story: a puppet show choreographed by the author and her sister Ruth, with all the characters made from household objects.” – The Guardian
Some Live Theaters Want To Reopen On May 6? Actors’ Equity Is Not Having It
Responding to “troubling reports” of some theaters’ plans, the union’s executive director said, “Any employer who wants to begin theatrical productions needs to have a comprehensive plan in place that protects not just the actors and stage managers, but ensures that everyone who works in the theater has a safe workplace. It is unclear under the current circumstances how that can happen.” – Deadline
Vancouver Symphony Rescinds Layoffs
“[The VSO’s president and board chair] said Wednesday the orchestra now expects to meet the goal of maintaining employment for musicians and staff to the end of the 2019-20 season in June.” The layoffs, a response to the COVID-19 epidemic, were announced April 1. – Vancouver Sun
Good News? Will COVID Kill Influencer Culture?
Social media influencers have had increasing… er… influence in recent years for their ability to get advertising messages out to their followers. But the COVID lockdown has crashed the market. And there’s even been backlashes to influencers who seem to be flaunting their enviable circumstances while the rest of us are stuck inside our apartments. – Wired
Oxford English Dictionary Updates With COVID Words
The dictionary’s executive editor Bernadette Paton said that it was “a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of time, and for that word to come overwhelmingly to dominate global discourse, even to the exclusion of most other topics”. – The Guardian
The Natural World Is Changing Around Us As We Lock Down. It’s Pretty Great
“People are suspended between terror and wonder. They’re terrified that this is all so fragile, but they also realize there are things we have been missing — the birdsong everyone is noticing, the beautiful skies — and that those things are important.” – Los Angeles Times
In Lockdown, Pollution Plummets, The Sky Returns And Indians Contemplate A Different India
The circulation of a billion Indians has not settled into the neat grid of social distance. On my phone, I see looming disaster. And yet, looking up, I see something else—a glimpse, behind the jungle crow facing off with two brahminy kites, of an alternative to how we live. In northern India, the change has been as basic as breathing. Of the thirty cities with the worst air pollution in the world, twenty-one are in northern India. – The New Yorker