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Copyright Ruling Worries Hollywood
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All About Jazz
The irony is hard to ignore: Just as Hollywood was hailing a White House plan to fight piracy last week, a federal court was handing down a ruling that many in entertainment see as an invitation to infringe.
It's even triggered suggestions that Congress will have to step in if the decision isn't reversed by a higher court. U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton's decision against Viacom and in favor of Google and YouTube placed the onus on copyright holders ...
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'Telling Stories': Spielberg, Lucas, Rockwell
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Michael Ricci
George Lucas' and Steven Spielberg's Norman Rockwell paintings go on show at Smithsonian American Art Museum. The filmmakers discuss the painter's influence in 'Telling Stories.'
Early on in Steven Spielberg's 1987 “Empire of the Sun," before the Japanese invasion of Shanghai shatters the privileged world of the movie's young British hero, we see the boy in the comfort of his own bedroom. In the dim room, the mother's face glows as she tucks her son into bed, while the father, ...
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Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Dismissed
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Michael Ricci
Viacom's $1-billion lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement has been dismissed.
In a decision issued Wednesday, United States District Court Judge Louis L. Stanton granted YouTube owner Google's motion for summary judgment that it qualifies for “safe harbor" protection under the law.
The provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act says that Internet companies are not liable for copyright infringement if they take certain preventive measures and promptly take down copyrighted materials when notified by their owners.
A Viacom spokesman ...
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Sound Gets 3D Upgrade
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All About Jazz
Mixers and theaters alike moving ahead with upgrades. Iosono's Brian Slack, whose multispeaker system delivers so-called 7.1 sound, calls 5.1. one-dimensional.
It's long been a rule of thumb that as moving images improve, sound has to improve with them. And love it or hate it, there's no denying that 3D adds visual information to a projected image.
Stereoscopic 3D gives the audience a second view of the action and more depth information than a 2D movie. That's upped the ante ...
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Bloomberg, WGA West Come Out Against, DGA for Comcast - NBC Deal
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Michael Ricci
Bloomberg LP has officially come out against the merger of cable conglomerate Comcast Corp. with entertainment giant NBC Universal.
In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department, Bloomberg, the financial news service company, warned that a combination of Comcast, the nation's largest broadband and cable provider, with NBC Universal is bad news. “Put simply, as the owner of both content and the means of distributing that content, Comcast will have every reason to undermine the many ...
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The 'Soul' of a Remarkable High School Jazz Band
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Michael Ricci
Anyone compiling a list of the all-time great funk masterminds would inevitably think of names such as James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone. One name that may not come as readily to most is Conrad O. Johnson, band director of the Kashmere Stage Band.
As the new documentary “Thunder Soul" makes clear, Johnson and his group of Houston, Texas, high school students likely deserve recognition alongside those pantheon players.
“Thunder Soul," directed by Mark Landsman, tells the story of ...
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Focus on Celebrity Photo Shoot
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Michael Ricci
'Double Exposure' offers a picture of the celebrity photo shoot The Monitor: The Bravo series peers into the behind-the-scenes lives of celebrity photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani.
Love it! Beautiful! That's hot! Oh my God, that's amazing! There, do you feel special yet? Apparently, part of celebrity involves having a high tolerance for loudly yapped compliments while cameras are trained on you.
On “Double Exposure" (Bravo, Tuesdays at 10 p.m.), which focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of celebrity photographers Markus ...
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2D Or Not 3D That is the Question
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All About Jazz
The process of converting 2D films to 3D has hit some serious speed bumps on the road to acceptance, but it will remain a key component of filmdom's march into 3D.
That was the message emerging from a panel Thursday assembled by the Intl. 3D Society in association with the Visual Effects Society. Without mentioning the recent brouhaha over the quality of the 3D conversion of “Clash of the Titans," moderator and 3D tech guru Lenny Lipton asked why 2D-to-3D ...
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