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Quick, Danny, write faster! Danny Yee has written additional reviews of Jessica Litman's Digital Copyright , Naomi Klein's No Logo , and John Sundman's Acts of the Apostles . (You might want to flashback to earlier reviews of these by Michael Sims and Jon Katz, Warren A. Layton, and Hemos.)
From the Persian for "King" Frederic Friedel of Chessbase contributed some links which are especially interesting in light of the recently announced match between Deep Fritz and Vladimir Kramnik. He points to this link and this other link, saying "The latter has some nice quotes from Kramnik."
In addition, Frederic has links with more on Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, and Fritz in Space.
But the name is already perfect for a MAD parody ... RFINN writes: "If you haven't heard by now, Lucasfilm announced the name of Episode II. It's going to be called 'Attack of the Clones.' If you're like me, this stirs up pictures of Jedi running from giant red tomatoes and such. Do your civic duty and help change the name that has become the laughing stock of the sci-fi movie going community (and some of the actors themselves) by signing a petition to be sent to George Lucas."
Sold! to the man with the large contingent of lawyers!
ncmusic writes "For all of you readers that have been following Bid For Power the DragonballZ Q3 mod. Funimation has issued a cease and desist order to the group. Funimation has excluse rights to DBZ in the US (and EU I think) and has sold exclusive video game rights to Infograms. Below is the announcement made on the site about the order. My question to the slashdot community is do you think this is fair? BFP is a FREE mod to an already existing game. Have their been any other precedence set for making mods based on characters from copyrighted work? And what advice do you have for the Bid For Power group?
'As many of you know Funimation owns the copyrights to Dragonball Z in the USA and has sold the exclusive rights to publish video games to Infogrames. On December 1st, 2000, the Bid For Power team received a cease and desist order from Funimation.
However, they seemed receptive to the notion of allowing Bid For Power to be released so long as certain conditions were met. We were put in touch with Infogrames who asked us, among other things, to recreate Bid For Power on Wild Tangent, a java-based engine, which would then be posted on the Dragonball Z website for people to play. This engine is incapable of running something as detailed as Bid For Power and we would have had to start work from scratch. Most of the team rejected the idea and talks went downhill from there. Without contact with Infogrames or Funimation the progress of Bid For Power slowed down even though we were sitting on a finished product and had been for some time.
We began dealing with Funimation directly in April when they asked us to send videos of gameplay to them so that they could have TOEI Japan review it. We sent the videos and heard nothing until we emailed them in July asking that we be allowed to release in August, since no objections had be made from TOEI Japan that we knew of. We were then sent another Cease and Desist order by way of Funimation.'"
So the confirmed-as-rumor rumor has become real? This is the sort of thing that would be best kept in the realm of rumor.
Funimation/infocomm has the rights to DBZ video games. TOEI (sp) does not, they've aleady sold them and could care less.
However, if the game qualifies as a parody then most of the copyrights are extremely difficult to maintain. Having had some exposure to DBZ, i'm sure that it won't be that hard to get from serious DBZ to a Parody of DBZ.
My first response when seeing the petition to change the god awful name of Episode II was happiness at being able to voice my mind and support an effort to improve a series I care about.
On consideration however, I think that signing that thing ignores the real problem -- quality of content. It is my expectation that Ep II will suffer a weak storyline, lame characters, jackass explanations (i.e., the Force comes from bugs in your cells or whatever the hell that was) just as Ep I did. Given this near certainty, I think the title is great. Let shit be called shit and we can save ourselves some grief.
And in no way, sir, does this post insinuate that you are a loser. Because you're not, really! I mean, how could such a well-versed Star Wars expert ever be called a fucking loser?
Sir? Sir? Are you there, sir?
...loser.
Maybe "Send In The Clones?"
I'm sorry but did you see that last movie. Giant Red Tomatoes would be a huge improvement. I think the petetion should be to replace Jar Jar with a Giant Red Tomato.
Bad mental picture:
;)
Jar-jar gets cloned
-= rei =-
*Kid Rock runs for Senate* Democrats: We must run Kid Scissors.
Well, movies frequently have fake names while they are still in production. ROTJ was once called "Revenge of the Jedi" while it was still in production. In any case, Lucas should have embellished the title a little more to "Attack of the Killer Clones from Outer Space", though hopefully it won't be quite that hokey (cross fingers).
Dude's got to lay off the crack.
Trolls throughout history:
Jonathan Swift
Sorry- I meant billion's.
It does depress me that to avoid lowering the self esteem of million's of illiterate's, we need to condone their mistake's. These are prople that can't even find their (there?) country on a map two out of three time's. I'm all for language evolving, but I refuse to follow the lead of the hillbilly's. I suppose that after a few more generation's of homeschooling these folk's will be writing Webster's for us. I think I'll just move to Canada and speak French. They might have stupid idea's about language, but they're better than your's.
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
Out of curiosity, do you consider a VCR to be a letter, a number, or a figure?
:) (Please accept this in the humorous spirit it was intended, as if we were old friends or something instead of complete strangers on the Internet.)
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
(You are L. Ron Hubbard, posting from Mars orbit, and still bitter about Heinlein being a better writer than you. Lord Xenu demands that you take back what you said. "Friday" was not space-opera fluff, and the aliens in it were neither slimy nor green!
Shakes the Clone
Planet of the Clones
Home A-Clone
Clone with the Wind
Jurassic Clone
The Lion Clone
Beverly Hills Clone
The Clonefather
Honey, I Shrunk the Clones
Dances with Clones
101 Clones
Snow White and the Seven Clones
The Rocky Horror Picture Clone
An Officer and a Clone
The Nutty Clone
The Hunt for Clone October
The Clonefather II
Remember the Clones
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Clone
Interview with the Clone
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Clone
Star Wars VI: Return of the Clone
How the Clone Stole Christmas
Raiders of the Lost Clone
Saving Private Clone
The Perfect Clone
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!