I foresee a new breed of media terrorist, armed with tape recorders with Madonna songs on them, busting into political speeches and news conferences and rendering them unfit for broadcast by filling the background with copyrighted music.
Be sure to yell out the lyrics to "Happy Birthday" while they're hauling you away, so it would be cost-prohibitive to show your arrest on TV. -- xo philip http://swordfight.org http://destroyhotaction.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excellent article in NYTimes about legal suits for filming the > environment around you: > http://tinyurl.com/89of6 > > Jonathan Caouette may have originally shot "Tarnation" for as little > as $218, but once the film won distribution, clearance costs ran > roughly $230,000. > > > Michael Vaccaro, a fourth grader, had just left P.S. 112 in Brooklyn > and was headed home with his mother. Two filmmakers were in front of > him, their camera capturing his every movement on video, when his > mother's cellphone rang. > > "It was such an indicator of today's culture," said Amy Sewell, a > producer of "Mad Hot Ballroom," the documentary that follows New York > City children as they learn ballroom dancing and prepare for a > citywide contest. "Michael's mom had just asked him how school was, > her cellphone rings, she answers it, and the look on his face says, > 'I don't get to tell my mom about my day.' " > > In addition, the ringtone was "Gonna Fly Now," the theme from > "Rocky," and the neighborhood was Bensonhurst. "How perfect was > that?" Ms. Sewell said. > > Perfect, but a problem. Had the ringtone been a common telephone > ring, the scene could have dropped into the final edit without a > hitch, the moment providing a quick bit of emotional texture to the > film. But EMI Music Publishing, which owns the rights to "Gonna Fly > Now," was asking the first-time producer for $10,000 to use those six > seconds. > > etc. . . > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
