Canadian Copyright Tough Guys Get Nailed On Copyright Violation

Canada’s government is trying to toughen the country’s copyright laws. So why did the ruling party make an ad using music it didn’t have the rights to? The legislation “is strongly opposed by many culture activists because it emphasizes the ability of copyright holders to control and be remunerated for precisely these sorts of uses of their intellectual property.”

One Man’s Amazing Route To Dance Stardom

“As a child, Li Cunxin endured poverty so extreme that children from his commune raided rats’ nests for food. In a fluke, he was chosen to go to China’s leading ballet school, overseen by Mao’s notorious wife, Jiang Qing, even though he had never danced a step. Then there was his dramatic defection to the US in 1981, and an acquaintance with former US first lady Barbara Bush that helped reunite him with his parents.”

University Bans Performance Of Sondheim’s Assassins

“A student production of Assassins, the award-winning musical, was to have premiered Thursday night at Arkansas Tech University, but the administration banned it — and permitted a final dress rehearsal Wednesday night (so the cast could experience the play on which students have worked long hours) only on the condition that wooden stage guns were cut in half prior to the event and not used. Assassins is a musical in which the characters are the historic figures who have tried to kill a U.S. president.”