“A federal appeals court judge has revived a $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit by Viacom Inc.against Google Inc.’sYouTube … [The case] reflected a frantic effort by Viacom to halt unauthorized snippets of its TV shows from showing up online.”
Tag: 04.06.12
Louisville Orchestra Management Begins Hiring Replacement Players
“Louisville Orchestra Inc. will begin hiring musicians this month to replace those who have been enmeshed in contentious negotiations with the organization for nearly a year, orchestra CEO Robert Birman said Thursday.” On Tuesday, the orchestra’s board rejected the musicians’ proposal for binding arbitration.
Alberta Ballet’s Next Pop-Music Piece Will Be To KD Lang
“After creating pop ballets featuring the music of Joni Mitchell, Elton John and Sarah McLachlan, Alberta Ballet artistic director Jean Grand-Maître is teaming up with a native of the province for his latest contemporary collaboration. Balletlujah!, set to the music of k.d. lang, will have its world premiere in May, 2013.”
Lightbox, Toronto Film Fest’s New HQ, Does Disappointing Box Office
“‘This is probably naiveté on my part,’ Piers Handling confessed the other day. But ‘there was a kind of feeling of ‘you build it, they will come.” Especially after 10 years of raising almost $200-million and especially with the brand of the Toronto International Film Festival … People have come. But not, it seems, in the numbers TIFF CEO and director Handling … might have been hoping.”
For An Online Synagogue, An Online Passover Seder
Cincinnati-based Rabbi Laura Baum’s seder “will be conducted in cyberspace, as her guests – from New York to New Zealand – join in at OurJewishCommunity.org, the online congregation she co-leads. … So far, the guest list is up to about 400 – although she need not worry about any last-minute crashers. ‘It is not as if we will run out of gefilte fish,’ she says.”