As seems to be the norm rather than the exception these days over at The New York Times, they attempt to write a story on what is happening in our industry but fail to capture some of the most interesting aspects of the story, which would require actual research:
Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg […]

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Via Art Brodsky, communications director of PK, “At about the same time this morning that Gigi [Sohn, president of PK] was giving a major speech on copyright reform at Boston University, she was also part of a Good Morning America story on copyright reform.
The GMA story was about the woman who got a take-down notice […]

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Free Press has a great news wrap-up email to give the headlines if you are interested in staying up on this kind of news. I’m not finding media artists who are fired up about these net neutrality issues, and I can’t understand why. It will absolutely will mean that people won’t be able to watch […]

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Via WIRED, “Disney, CBS, Microsoft, Fox, NBC, Viacom, Dailymotion, MySpace and Veoh Networks announced so-called User Generated Content Principles that appear aimed at stifling fair use. The announcement calls for the ‘implementation of state of the art filtering technology with the goal to eliminate infringing content on (user-generated content services), including blocking infringing uploads before […]

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I went to the Austin Film Festival’s French Legation BBQ on Friday and ran into Christen McArdle, the executive director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, who reminded me about their battle for state funding without censorship of the films that they show. I am hoping to meet up with Christen and get some more […]

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