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FCC Paves Way for Studios to Push Movies into the Home, Rattling Theaters
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Michael Ricci
Federal regulators have granted a controversial waiver to the Hollywood studios that clears the way for them to show first-run movies in the home shortly after -- or even during -- their release in theaters.
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday granted a petition from the Motion Picture Assn. of America, the chief lobbying group for the major studios, that would permit for a limited-period use of “selectable output control" technology for watching movies in the home. The technology disables ...
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Geek the Beatles: 'Let It Be' Recombined Reality Bites
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All About Jazz
Forty years ago, Let It Be closed out a decade of The Beatles artistic and technological influence. Its a period that has yet to be matched in popular culture.
Wired.com will explore the bands lasting impact in a new occasional series called Geek The Beatles, anchored to the bands momentous anniversaries in 2010. Let It Be, released May 8, 1970, shortly after the band members called it quits, transformed The Beatles from a functioning band into a dysfunctional multimedia brand. ...
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Judge Orders 'Crude' Filmmaker to Turn over Footage
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All About Jazz
A federal judge ordered a documentary filmmaker Thursday to turn over about 600 hours of raw footage from a film about a court fight over whether Chevron Corp. owes billions of dollars in damages for oil contamination in Ecuador.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said filmmaker Joseph Berlinger must turn over the outtakes from the film Crude, which was released last year, to lawyers for Chevron. Kaplan said Berlinger could not use the First Amendment to shield himself from ...
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Music Videos Make a Comeback -- And Los Angeles Directors Are at the Forefront
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All About Jazz
As proven on this blog and many others last week, music videos like M.I.A.'s violent tale of ginger genocide are one of the few elements of the music business that still has the power to stir conversation.
In an article this week, New York Magazine tracks how the medium recovered from its early aughts slump. We'll give you a little hint: Something called YouTube is largely responsible. That, and OK Go. It's been a long time since MTV lived up ...
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Bruce Warila: Every Major Artist is Failing as an Independent Media Channel and What to Do About It
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HypeBot
This guest post from music tech entrepreneur and philosopher Bruce Warila (@brucewarila) is excerpted from a piece on the informative Music Think Tank blog.
With minimal exceptions (taylorswift.com at #14,077), there are 20,000 websites that rank ahead of almost every artist website on earth. Why is it that sites like underjams.com, mudcat.org, museum.tv and twenty thousand other sites are more popular than the websites run by U2, DMB or Coldplay?
...The reason that artists don't rank high... is ...Continue Reading
"Sound of the Soul" Premieres on Link TV May 16
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Michael Ricci
New York, NY: Link TV is proud to announce the Link TV premiere of Sound of the Soul, a vivid, multi-layered portrait of both of an open-minded Arab city and the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, an extraordinary annual world music event that invites Muslim, Christian and Jewish men and women to perform in public at the only gathering of its kind in the Arab world. Sound of the Soul, featuring renowned musicians including Nass El Ghiwane, Anuna, Katia ...
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Nicole Laporte Goes Behind Closed Doors at Dreamworks
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Michael Ricci
'The Men Who Would Be King' by Nicole LaPorte
The 1990s were the financial apogee of Hollywood, a period when billions in fresh capital flowed into the coffers of the studios in the expectation that the world had an infinitely expanding need for American entertainment. With new cable networks launching to fill the multi-channel universe and huge multiplexes sprouting in shopping centers across the country, the demand for a steady supply of TV shows and movies to fill the pipeline ...
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