“Veteran iTunes customers will recognize the locks as FairPlay, a digital rights management software that once limited how many times digital songs can be copied onto different computers. … Next month, Apple will be dusting off those digital cuffs for books, according to sources in the publishing industry.”
Tag: 02.15.10
How Theatres Are Woven Into The Fabric Of Our Lives
“In Pleasance Two, in Edinburgh, I like to sit in the centre of the first row because that’s where I was sitting when I realised with total certainty that I was pregnant with my first child. … As I walk up the steps of the Royal Court, I always recall sitting there weeping for a lost love, who abandoned me for ever at the interval of a show.”
Trove Of Henry Moore Films To Go Online
“The material encompasses documentaries, interviews and reports spanning nearly five decades of Britian’s most famous sculptor. It includes six classic programmes made by pioneering producer John Read for the BBC.”
The Literary Biopic’s Reality Gap
“If writers are any good, it’s usually because they spend weeks alone, in a room, with a computer (or paper if they’re old-school).” But you wouldn’t know that from films. “Literary biopics usually cater to the fantasy that writers are drunk, mad, sex-obsessed geniuses inspired by the holy spirit (50% proof).”
Maria Callas’ Exhilarating, Famously Flawed Voice
“Callas’ ability to sing such a wide range of roles was one of the things that led to her meteoric rise. But … Callas’ voice was already starting to fail her by the time she was in her 40s — quite young for an opera singer. A number of factors, including a rapid loss of weight, may explain why.”
400 Years On, Female Playwright To Be Produced At Globe
Nell “Leyshon is the first known woman to have her work performed at the Globe but, to be fair to the theatre, its operating years have not helped. It opened in 1599 … but it was closed by the Puritans in 1642 and demolished two years later.” It wasn’t until 1997 that “performances began once more at the reconstructed theatre.”
Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Becomes … A Snow Park?
“With a price tag of $450 million, the world’s largest steel structure has been called a potential white elephant, a big, expensive building that no longer serves a purpose.” Thus the snow park, “the latest effort to create a new life for the stadium.”
German Lit Scandal – Plagiarism Or Mashup?
Disentangling fact from fiction in a spat that looks like a nasty blog-war is tricky, but it’s clear from the reports I’ve read that Hegemann, a child of the internet age, simply does not understand, or recognise, the charge of plagiarism. To her, coming from the cut-and-paste world of blogs and Facebook, what she’s done is no more than “mixing” (she seems to use the English term, by the way.)
Highlights Of This Year’s Berlin Film Festival
“Berlin is sometimes accused of being low-key compared with Cannes and Venice – but there are some powerful, valuable films.”
What Happened At This Year’s TED
A mosquito “death ray”?