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Saturday, August 21, 2004

THE CINEMATIC BLOGOSPHERE

There's been a bunch of cool stuff popping up in the film blogosphere lately. Below are a couple of links that have caught my attention; the sites these links are from should be immediately bookmarked!

The Movieblog, subtitled "The Official Home of Correct Movie Opinions," actually isn't a compendium of hastily scribbled film "reviews" but rather a sharp assortment of interesting movie links with a particular emphasis on Asian horror and art films. Click over there now for stuff like a stylish Japanese website for Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 and a giant Quicktime trailer of Wes Anderson's new The Life Aquatic.

Over at Moviecity News, Ray Pride has a great interview with Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly on the occasion of that film's new director's cut re-release.

By the way, most of the above I was alerted to by the beyond essential Greencine Daily, still the best film blog out there.

# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 8/21/2004 11:25:03 PM Comments (1)

COPYRIGHT UNCONTROLLED

In Jeff Levy-Hinte's piece, "The Digital Divide," in the current issue of Filmmaker, Levy-Hinte discusses the major studio's battle against new technologies like the file-sharing services which, while they enable the free distribution of copyrighted materail, also have legitimate uses. Levy-Hinte's fears of expanding governmental control over legal technologies were abated this week by a federal appeals court ruling stating that two file sharing services, Grokster and Streamcast, weren't liable for the distribution of copyrighted works on their networks.

Judge Sidney R. Thomas wrote, "History has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology be a player piano, a copier, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a personal computer, a karaoke machine, or an MP3 player. Thus, it's prudent for courts to exercise caution before restructuring liability theories."

Download Levy-Hinte's piece if you haven't, and check out also David Poland's combative three-part reply in his The Hot Button.

# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 8/21/2004 04:56:04 PM Comments (0)