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Mar 08, 2012	Online, a Distant Conflict Soars to Topic No. 1 QUOTE: in a testament to the explosive power of social media, he managed to do so in a matter of days, baffling diplomats, academics and Ugandans who have worked assiduously on the issue for decades without anything close to the blitz of attention that Mr. Russell and his tight-knit group of activists have generated....many viewers had never heard of Mr. Kony or his murderous band of fighters until seeing the video by Mr. Russell’s group, Invisible Children, pop up in their Facebook feeds.	New York Times
Dec 28, 2010	Injustice, British and Otherwise (MOVIE REVIEW | 'ANOTHER YEAR') QUOTE: Here in America, after all, the pursuit of happiness has the status of a foundational right, coincident, but not quite identical, with material prosperity. In Britain, where dourness can seem to be as much a part of the stereotypical national character as bad food, foul weather and precise distinctions of status, the assertion of a right to be happy can seem almost revolutionary.	New York Times
Jun 02, 2010	The RIAA? Amateurs. Here's how you sue 14,000+ P2P users QUOTE: why have P2P lawsuits against individuals spiked dramatically in 2010? It's all thanks to the US Copyright Group, a set of lawyers who have turned P2P prosecution into revenue generation in order to "SAVE CINEMA."	Ars Technica
Apr 08, 2010	Copyright and wrong: Why the rules on copyright need to return to their roots QUOTE: The notion that lengthening copyright increases creativity is questionable, however. Authors and artists do not generally consult the statute books before deciding whether or not to pick up pen or paintbrush.	Economist
Aug 26, 2009	Paying the Price for Hollywood Remakes: Bollywood Facing Copyright Lawsuits QUOTE: American moviemakers have begun suing their counterparts in India, a sure sign that this country's booming, $2.2 billion-a-year film industry has arrived as a global player.	Washington Post
Jul 20, 2009	In New Mexico, moviemaking isn't always magical: Film incentives draw Hollywood to small towns like Las Vegas, where not all the residents are star struck. QUOTE: As more and more movie production leaves California, sensible small towns across the country are getting a taste of Hollywood glitz -- and it isn't always sweet.	Los Angeles Times
Oct 15, 2008	McCain seeks special 'fair use' copyright rules for VIPs QUOTE: McCain is calling for VIP treatment for the remixes made by political campaigns. All claims of fair use are equal--yet some claims are more equal than others.	CNET
Oct 01, 2008	Rob Glaser's RealDVD: Friend or Foe of Fair Use? QUOTE: The war between RealNetworks and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) could be more important than you think.	PC Magazine
Sep 11, 2008	New tool creates fake YouTube pages for spreading malware QUOTE: Panda Security said it has uncovered a tool circulating in underground hacking forums, dubbed YTFakeCreator, that enables anyone to easily create a fake YouTube page that surreptitiously installs a Trojan, virus, or adware on a visitor's computer, said Ryan Sherstobitoff, chief corporate evangelist of Panda Security.	CNET
Jul 17, 2008	Polanski Asks Prosecutor to Review Film’s Claims QUOTE: Mr. Polanski, the director of “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown,” fled the United States 30 years ago on the eve of being sentenced for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. Now, Mr. Polanski and his lawyer have asked the Los Angeles district attorney’s office to review a new documentary in which a former deputy district attorney claims to have coached the judge in the case.	New York Times
Jan 29, 2008	Can a Sandwich Be Slandered? QUOTE: The dispute over an ad is fairly standard...but the [Quiznos] video contest [the rules of which made it clear that the videos should depict Quiznos sandwiches as “superior” to Subway’s] raises a novel legal question: Quiznos did not make the insulting submissions, so should it be held liable for user-generated content created at its behest?	New York Times
Jan 09, 2008	Hey, Isn't That . . . People Are Doing Double-Takes, And Taking Action, As Web Snapshots Are Nabbed for Commercial Uses QUOTE: Under the banner of "intellectual property," record labels warn you not to bootleg their songs. Hollywood studios warn you not to download their movies. Intellectual property has lately seemed the concern of corporations trying to protect the artist from the grabby public. But in an increasingly user-generated world where the public is the artist, sometimes it's the big boys who get grabby.	Washington Post
Dec 02, 2007	Film on Mexico’s Disputed ’06 Election Stirs Emotions QUOTE: The new film, “Fraud, Mexico 2006,” lays out in detail the arguments of leftists who say the combination of a smear campaign and fraud at polling places swung the election to President Calderón. Mr. Mandoki got financial backing for the movie from Federico Arreola, a journalist, entrepreneur and close campaign adviser to Mr. López Obrador.	New York Times
Oct 20, 2007	Strict Visa Regulations Discourage Visiting Artists: Post-9/11 Process Adds Costs and Red Tape QUOTE: To perform in this country, foreign artists of all stripes -- punk rockers, ballet dancers, folk musicians, acrobats -- are funneled through a one-size-fits-all "nonimmigrant" visa process whose costs and complications have become prohibitive, according to booking agents, managers and presenters, such as the Kennedy Center, who program and market the performers.	Washington Post
Oct 14, 2007	A Violent Police Unit, on Film and in Rio’s Streets QUOTE: The movie, which opened nationwide on Friday but last week in Rio and São Paulo, has offered a rare look into the battalion, which is depicted as killing and torturing, seemingly at will. It is causing many Brazilians to reflect on what level of violence is acceptable from the police, especially in Rio, a city with a homicide rate more than six times higher than New York City’s.	New York Times
May 20, 2007	Indians Divided on Kissing A Cultural Taboo Goodbye: Debate Over Displays of Affection Mirrors Broader Differences QUOTE: "Moral police," sometimes organized by regional Hindu nationalist parties and sometimes just vigilantes with a point of view, have been increasingly on the prowl recently. Last month, Hindu extremist mobs attacked Star TV offices in Mumbai, the cultural capital of the country, for airing a story on an interfaith couple who had eloped.	Washington Post
May 11, 2007	Puffing Away That PG Rating QUOTE: Under the new policy, a film’s rating will consider all tobacco use, rather than just teenage smoking, as in the past. But the board stopped short of guaranteeing that tobacco use would be considered as heavily as sex, violence or drug use in assigning a rating.	New York Times
Feb 20, 2007	Teen 'sport killings' of homeless on the rise QUOTE: Criminologists call these wilding sprees "sport killing," -- largely middle-class teens, with no criminal records, assaulting the homeless with bats, golf clubs, paintball guns.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Feb 06, 2007	When YouTube Starts Paying You, Don't Quit Your Day Job QUOTE: While analysts agree that paid content may eventually be a workable model, it isn't likely that anyone will be getting rich off of it anytime soon.	PC Magazine
Sep 15, 2006	The Why Behind G, PG, R and the Rest QUOTE: power gives the MPAA extraordinary sway over how films will be distributed and advertised, how much money they can make and, ultimately, their impact on the culture. It is, argues filmmaker Kirby Dick, a de facto power of censorship.	Washington Post
Jul 31, 2006	Facts Refute Filmmaker's Assertions on Income Tax in 'America' QUOTE: The film’s appeal...is not left or right, but concentrated among those who see the United States evolving into a police state ruled by an oligarchy that has tricked Americans into paying taxes...Early in the film Mr. Russo...asserts that every president since Woodrow Wilson and every member of Congress has perpetrated a hoax to tax people’s wages and issue them dubious currency.	New York Times
Jun 23, 2006	On TV, There's a Killer Corporate Image Problem QUOTE: On the heels of last month's conviction of top Enron Corp. executives comes this nugget from the Media Research Center, a conservative television watchdog group that examines programming to determine how certain groups are portrayed. In this study, the group claims that Hollywood unfairly and overwhelmingly casts businessmen and women as "criminal CEOs and murdering MBAs."	Washington Post
Jun 21, 2006	Studio Sues Over Internet Film Based On Stone's Script QUOTE: Chris Moukarbel was intrigued by director Oliver Stone's latest project, a $60 million movie to be released this summer about two police officers rescued from the rubble of the twin towers... He decided to create his own version -- using a bootleg copy of the screenplay...	Washington Post
May 26, 2006	If Michael Moore Helped Tip an Election, He'd Be Nanni Moretti QUOTE: If you ask me why nobody ever made a movie about [Silvio Berlusconi], I have reasons for that. The first one is that the Italian reality is so amazing it is hard for the imagination to follow it. A second reason is if you want to make a movie, the funding comes from television, and in Italy it's either RAI or Berlusconi's channels, so they might not be interested in such a movie. And finally, I don't like to talk about censorship, but I think many directors or actors censor themselves.	Washington Post
May 17, 2006	Discredited Somali Quits Dutch Politics: Advocate for Women Is Critic of Islam QUOTE: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali woman who moved to the Netherlands, won a seat in the Dutch parliament and became one of Europe's best-known champions of immigrant and Muslim women's rights, said Tuesday she would give up her seat and leave the country because she is being stripped of citizenship for lying on an asylum application 14 years ago.	Washington Post
May 17, 2006	MPAA Rates Poster an F: Documentary Ad's Image of Guantanamo Prisoner Abuse Deemed Inappropriate QUOTE: The Motion Picture Association of America has censored a poster advertising a film about the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba..."The reason given was that the burlap bag over the guy's head was depicting torture, which wasn't appropriate for children to see,"	Washington Post
Apr 18, 2006	End Smithsonian-Showtime Deal, Filmmakers and Historians Ask QUOTE: More than 200 filmmakers and historians asked the Smithsonian Institution yesterday to abandon its production deal with Showtime Networks and reconsider a recently imposed policy that limits access to Smithsonian archives and experts.	Washington Post
Feb 10, 2006	Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys QUOTE: Sometimes I wonder if evangelicals really believe that gay men can go straight. If they don't think Chad Allen can play straight convincingly for 108 minutes, do they honestly imagine that gay men who aren't actors can play straight for a lifetime?...If anything, supporters of traditional marriage should want gay men out of the heterosexual marriage market entirely.	New York Times
Sep 23, 2005	Film Maker Targets Power With Pointed Lens QUOTE: '"Ordinary President" was made in 1996, two years after Lukashenko was elected president....In the years since "Ordinary President" was made, most of Chascavacki's dark fears about Lukashenko's real intentions have come true.'	Washington Post
Mar 29, 2005	Documentary Criticized for Re-enacted Scenes QUOTE: ... some documentary filmmakers are questioning the ethics of Bobby Houston and Robert Hudson's unflagged use of a technique [they] call "faux doc" ...	New York Times
Feb 16, 2005	Are Bullies After Our Culture? QUOTE: Should the Girl Scouts have to fork over a fee to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers every time its young members want to sing "Happy Birthday" to one another?	Wired
Sep 27, 2004	A Graphic Film of Protest, and Cries of Blasphemy QUOTE: ..."Submission," a 10-minute film shown on Dutch prime time television, written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born refugee....said her purpose was not to give offense but to draw attention to what she contends is widespread but hidden violence against Muslim women...	New York Times
Aug 04, 2004	Art? Smut? Commerce? Billboard Gets Attention QUOTE: ...a looming image that shows a woman performing oral sex for a man. Ad for a strip club? Unh-unh. The billboard is for a movie...	New York Times
Apr 25, 2004	NASA Curbs Comments on Ice Age Disaster Movie QUOTE: The initial efforts by NASA headquarters to limit comments [about "The Day After Tomorrow”--Ed.] angered some government researchers. "It's just another attempt to play down anything that might lead to the conclusion that something must be done" about global warming, one federal climate scientist said.	New York Times
Jan 17, 2004	Indian Filmmakers Feel Sting of Censorship Growing Intolerance Blamed as Documentaries About Violence in Gujarat Are Banned QUOTE: Several documentaries that investigate the horrors of the brutal bloodshed that lasted for weeks in Gujarat in 2002 have been rejected by the film festival's organizers, banned by India's censorship board or faced threats from Hindu extremist groups.	Washington Post
Oct 17, 2003	Studios, Actors, and Digital Cloning: Legal Issues in the Battle over Personal Identity QUOTE: ...corporations are fighting a little-publicized battle over control of personal identity. The battleground is the realm of "digital clones," sometimes referred to as "digital replicas"---the digital recordings of a person's voice, appearance, and actions that can be manipulated and re-used in other projects and applications.	Fairness.com
Jun 12, 2003	'The Matrix' made me do it QUOTE: When Tonda Lynn Ansley confessed to shooting her landlord on a crowded street, she cited the movie "The Matrix" as evidence the killing was "morally right."	Christian Science Monitor
Mar 12, 2003	Taking on Tradtion: Kenyan Girl Confronted a Cruel World About Her Circumcision QUOTE: She was the toast of the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year — a 10-year-old who turned into a de facto ambassador-activist, pitching her voice against an excruciatingly inhumane, but ancient, practice that affects millions of women around the world.	ABC News
Dec 23, 2002	Welcome to the Occupation: A skeptical, satirical new comedy, straight outta Palestine QUOTE: Some pro-Israeli groups want to have the film banned, and it’s not eligible for a best-foreign-film Oscar because the motion- picture Academy does not recognize Palestine as a nation.	MSNBC
Oct 10, 2002	Art: What's Original, Anyway? QUOTE: ...an exhibit will celebrate "degenerate art" in a corporate age: art and ideas on the fringes of intellectual property law.	Wired
Aug 20, 2002	Planned Mini-Series on Hitler's Early Life Brings Criticism QUOTE: Can a four-hour CBS mini-series based on the early life of Hitler accurately depict his monstrousness? ...To the project's critics...the very idea of a drama about Hitler's youth is appalling...	New York Times
May 26, 2002	Movies Offer Nothing More, and Often Less QUOTE: Why do the two words, Movies and Truth, like magnets of opposite poles, seem to repel each other?	Washington Post
Sep 07, 2001	Thumbs Down? Re-edit the Flick Yourself QUOTE: Lucasfilm has been supportive of such fan-created derivative works as the "Star Wars"-meets-"Cops" parody "Troops," but it views remakes of its own releases differently. "We always appreciate fans' enthusiasm and love of 'Star Wars,' but we can't allow them to duplicate and distribute our films for profit,"...	Washington Post
May 16, 2001	San Antonio Revoked Arts Grant Illegally, Judge Rules QUOTE: A federal judge in San Antonio ruled today that elected officials in that city acted unconstitutionally in 1997 when they cut off public financing of a controversial arts group that among other things had sponsored a gay and lesbian film festival.	New York Times

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