Sure, but the Supreme Court recently said that failure to produce valid ID upon request can be grounds for arrest. That does seem to imply that it's compulsory...
Back in May '02 Boeing satellites were used to send copies of Attack of the Clones for digital projection. I'm not sure where this weeks' article gets off saying that Final Cut is the first film to do this, unless they're claiming that 115 screens is the achievement here, and not the actual process of sending the files.
But with the publicity of the photos via slashdot, a published book of the snapshots isn't out of the question... In fact, if it could be argued that the blog was a derivative work, the the original photographer could publish the text of the blogger. That might be a stretch though.
Sooo... what if I aim the camera and my buddy presses the button?
The buddy gets called an "assistant" and you still get the copyright. Herb Ritz did it all the time. Hell, I bet he didn't even aim the camera half the time, but he's still considered the photographer.
What if I take a perfectly framed picture of a copyrighted picture? Do I then own the copyright?
No, you're just in violation of the original copyright.
Well, there's the copyright issue, for one... Any picture taken is, by default, owned by the person who took it, even if it's not registered with the copyright office. Distribution of said photos, without consent is a straightforward copyright breech. I don't even think it could fall under the parody clause, necessarily, but I haven't read the blog to see how funny or ironic it might be. It certainly doesn't fall under the fair use doctrine, particularly if you consider the contents of one memory stick to be a single collection of work, which is how the blogger is treating this.
The annoying thing is that Dreamworks timed the release of Shrek so that the DVD came out on the same day Monsters, Inc. opened in theaters. And now, they're releasing the DVD of Shrek 2 the same day The Incredibles opens. It's like they think that by selling a DVD, people won't go out and see the competition's movie...
Indeed. IANAL, but I wasn't aware that contract law could trump copyright law. If someone sold a company the film rights in 1951, how long is that contract actually valid for? Perpetuity? I realize now days film rights are done with "options" that can expire, be resold, etc., but I'm guessing that the system wasn't that sophisticated (read, people weren't looking for loopholes so much) back in the 50's...
Actually, I've mentioned this before in a few places, but in 2002 the Manhattan Supreme Court upheld a contract that gave Paramount exclusive rights (even though the work was in the public domain...)
From Yahoo! News:
Paramount Wins The War of the World Rights
Fri Apr 19, 7:41 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The grandchildren of author H.G. Wells lost their bid to control The War of the Worlds when Paramount Pictures was granted exclusive television rights to the science fiction novel in a ruling made public on Friday.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Ira Gammerman, in a six-page decision, said the Wells grandchildren, who filed a suit against Paramount nearly 18 months ago, are unable to sell the right to produce and distribute a television motion picture/miniseries based on the novel to Hallmark Cards Entertainment Productions LLC.
The novel earned a place in pop culture after actor Orson Welles set off a nationwide panic with his famed radio broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938.
When H.G. Wells died in 1946, he left all his rights and interests in the novel to his son, Frank. After his death, Frank Wells children, Martin and Robin Wells as trustees of their fathers estate, began negotiations with Hallmark to produce and distribute a TV miniseries based on the novel.
When Paramount learned of the negotiations in 1988, it asserted exclusive ownership of the television rights, based on a 1951 contract signed by Frank Wells.
The grandchildren and Hallmark as plaintiffs in the action had argued that while the 1951 contract gave Paramount extensive motion picture rights this was not television rights.
But the judge ruled that any motion pictures that Paramount has the right to produce, it also has the right to televise.
The grandchildren in their suit had attempted to draw a distinction between motion pictures and television miniseries.
Such a distinction is untenable, the judge wrote.
I emailed that to Lessig, and he was at a loss to explain it at the time.
Oh, and little things like just about any advertising, graphic design, web development, or music production - based companies? Basically any company that banks on creativity.
Not to take away from the intent of your post. But I think there are levels of effects technology, and levels of the audience's saturation thereof. Groundbreaking effects years ago, the ones that really made us think "how'd they do that an make it look so real", really come apart at the seams 20 years later. Look at Star Wars, or Terminator 2, or the Matrix. In their day, they were at the tops of their games. But the cost of those effects has come down, and they've become commonplace.
While I agree effects should be secondary to the story, I think the real talent is in creating effects that are as realistic as possible, so that the audience doesn't question what they're seeing, and can get swept up in the story. That's probably why there was an effects guy on Shawshank, and why you didn't notice him... he did his job well.
Not sure the point of your post, but all 5 Star Wars films that Lucas has released so far (plus the various Special Editions, etc) have clocked in at over 2 hours...
Even better: eXtreme Cooking. Highlights include cooking in pairs; coming up with a set of tests to determine if the meal is "done"; and the inevitable "refactoring"
Yeah but imagine the liability if they made you be there while the roof was being ripped of their building... Those are probably terms they would understand...
Of course, the documentary in question, Empire of Dreams is showing on A&E this Sunday night. Don't know if they've edited it from the DVD version or not.
T2: Ultimate Edition was one of the first really large-scale DVD-18 releases (double-sided, dual layer = 15GB capacity). If I remember correctly, WAMO had a pretty strong commitment from Artisan before actually buying the manufacturing equipment necessary to press these discs, and there were a large number of bad burns (coasters) in the manufacturing process. At some point later (not sure when) the aluminum Ultimate Edition case contained 2 DVD-9s instead, and I haven't heard much about DVD-18 as a format since then.
Then I take it that you are, in fact, paying Gail and the Zappa Family Trust a mechanical royalty for the snippet of Frank's music that you're playing with your own hands?
Um, maybe you're not familiar with classical music... Stuff written a few hundred years ago, by the likes of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and others, quite often incorporated themes and melodies that were popular among the people (either traditional or sometimes written by lesser known composers) but then were built into massive new works through orchestration and ornamentation. How do you reconcile the "current" methods of mixing and sampling against the classical methods?
Back in the day, I knew a guy who owned a movie theater in Houston (the Bellaire, FTitK). They had a video projection system as well, and for his son's birthday party they hooked up the original Nintendo NES with a Duck Hunt cartridge and the Zapper light gun... much fun was had, blasting away at the movie screen...
Interesting. Somehow I doubt the unedited version will ever see the light of day again, but I'd be curious to know what they cut out, considering what they left in...
please note that 20 of IMDB's Top 50 Movies are from 1990 or more recent
This has more to do with the mass markety appeal of IMDB than with the cinematic excellence of that survey. Hell, look for just about any summer or Christmas blockbuster on that chart shortly after it opens. People will say it was the best film evar, but eventually common sense will bump it back down a few notches.
Not to troll, but Memento? Plot? Really? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie, and own the DVD, but really it was more about he gimmick of the framework than anything actually intelligent in the story.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, but the Supreme Court recently said that failure to produce valid ID upon request can be grounds for arrest. That does seem to imply that it's compulsory...
Boris, the zeppelin is in the barn. The sow clucks at midnight. Over.
Back in May '02 Boeing satellites were used to send copies of Attack of the Clones for digital projection. I'm not sure where this weeks' article gets off saying that Final Cut is the first film to do this, unless they're claiming that 115 screens is the achievement here, and not the actual process of sending the files.
But with the publicity of the photos via slashdot, a published book of the snapshots isn't out of the question... In fact, if it could be argued that the blog was a derivative work, the the original photographer could publish the text of the blogger. That might be a stretch though.
Sooo... what if I aim the camera and my buddy presses the button?
The buddy gets called an "assistant" and you still get the copyright. Herb Ritz did it all the time. Hell, I bet he didn't even aim the camera half the time, but he's still considered the photographer.
What if I take a perfectly framed picture of a copyrighted picture? Do I then own the copyright?
No, you're just in violation of the original copyright.
Well, there's the copyright issue, for one... Any picture taken is, by default, owned by the person who took it, even if it's not registered with the copyright office. Distribution of said photos, without consent is a straightforward copyright breech. I don't even think it could fall under the parody clause, necessarily, but I haven't read the blog to see how funny or ironic it might be. It certainly doesn't fall under the fair use doctrine, particularly if you consider the contents of one memory stick to be a single collection of work, which is how the blogger is treating this.
The annoying thing is that Dreamworks timed the release of Shrek so that the DVD came out on the same day Monsters, Inc. opened in theaters. And now, they're releasing the DVD of Shrek 2 the same day The Incredibles opens. It's like they think that by selling a DVD, people won't go out and see the competition's movie...
All part of Bush's "leave no child behind" program...
Indeed. IANAL, but I wasn't aware that contract law could trump copyright law. If someone sold a company the film rights in 1951, how long is that contract actually valid for? Perpetuity? I realize now days film rights are done with "options" that can expire, be resold, etc., but I'm guessing that the system wasn't that sophisticated (read, people weren't looking for loopholes so much) back in the 50's...
From Yahoo! News:I emailed that to Lessig, and he was at a loss to explain it at the time.
Oh, and little things like just about any advertising, graphic design, web development, or music production - based companies? Basically any company that banks on creativity.
Then I wonder why they credit a special effects person?
Not to take away from the intent of your post. But I think there are levels of effects technology, and levels of the audience's saturation thereof. Groundbreaking effects years ago, the ones that really made us think "how'd they do that an make it look so real", really come apart at the seams 20 years later. Look at Star Wars, or Terminator 2, or the Matrix. In their day, they were at the tops of their games. But the cost of those effects has come down, and they've become commonplace.
While I agree effects should be secondary to the story, I think the real talent is in creating effects that are as realistic as possible, so that the audience doesn't question what they're seeing, and can get swept up in the story. That's probably why there was an effects guy on Shawshank, and why you didn't notice him... he did his job well.
Not sure the point of your post, but all 5 Star Wars films that Lucas has released so far (plus the various Special Editions, etc) have clocked in at over 2 hours...
Even better: eXtreme Cooking. Highlights include cooking in pairs; coming up with a set of tests to determine if the meal is "done"; and the inevitable "refactoring"
Yeah but imagine the liability if they made you be there while the roof was being ripped of their building... Those are probably terms they would understand...
Of course, the documentary in question, Empire of Dreams is showing on A&E this Sunday night. Don't know if they've edited it from the DVD version or not.
T2: Ultimate Edition was one of the first really large-scale DVD-18 releases (double-sided, dual layer = 15GB capacity). If I remember correctly, WAMO had a pretty strong commitment from Artisan before actually buying the manufacturing equipment necessary to press these discs, and there were a large number of bad burns (coasters) in the manufacturing process. At some point later (not sure when) the aluminum Ultimate Edition case contained 2 DVD-9s instead, and I haven't heard much about DVD-18 as a format since then.
Then I take it that you are, in fact, paying Gail and the Zappa Family Trust a mechanical royalty for the snippet of Frank's music that you're playing with your own hands?
Um, maybe you're not familiar with classical music... Stuff written a few hundred years ago, by the likes of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and others, quite often incorporated themes and melodies that were popular among the people (either traditional or sometimes written by lesser known composers) but then were built into massive new works through orchestration and ornamentation. How do you reconcile the "current" methods of mixing and sampling against the classical methods?
They claim OS X support, but then on their software page only have the firmware as an EXE... Guess Mac users never have to reflash their player?
Back in the day, I knew a guy who owned a movie theater in Houston (the Bellaire, FTitK). They had a video projection system as well, and for his son's birthday party they hooked up the original Nintendo NES with a Duck Hunt cartridge and the Zapper light gun... much fun was had, blasting away at the movie screen...
Interesting. Somehow I doubt the unedited version will ever see the light of day again, but I'd be curious to know what they cut out, considering what they left in...
IIRC, A Clockwork Orange was also originally an "X". Don't know when it was re-rated...
please note that 20 of IMDB's Top 50 Movies are from 1990 or more recent
This has more to do with the mass markety appeal of IMDB than with the cinematic excellence of that survey. Hell, look for just about any summer or Christmas blockbuster on that chart shortly after it opens. People will say it was the best film evar, but eventually common sense will bump it back down a few notches.
Not to troll, but Memento? Plot? Really? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie, and own the DVD, but really it was more about he gimmick of the framework than anything actually intelligent in the story.