“For example, Time Warner could launch a movie series based on a character you created and not owe you a dime. While the terms state that you retain the copyright, you also give Amazon an exclusive license to your original work and Amazon in turn licenses your work to Time Warner in a license that provides nothing for you.”
Tag: 05.23.13
Museum Directors Look For An Evolutionary Model
“Concerns about the number and scale of museums raised issues about the capacity for an industry-wide restructure, integrated collections and even the possibility of a moratorium on new museum construction for two to five years.”
Is It Time To Abandon The Apostrophe?
“For several decades, writers, scholars, and language rabble-rousers have been suggesting that apostrophes are perhaps less necessary than we might suspect.”
Fading Remains Of George Orwell’s Burma
“The remaining whiff of Orwell, whose five years at various stations in Burma as an officer of the Imperial Police Force ended here in 1927, is a spacious two-story wooden house with fireplaces and a once-elegant staircase.”
Retail Bookstores Report A Good Quarter
“Retail watcher Placed Insights found brick-and-mortar booksellers saw a 27% increase in shopper traffic in the first three months of 2013 when compared to the same period in 2012. That’s according to a report in National Real Estate Investor, which keeps an eye on which stores tend to draw customers.”
Granta Is Now Hemorrhaging Staff
“A slew of high-profile departures from the prestigious literary magazine and publisher Granta has left staff reeling as owner and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing steps up to take full control of the company.”
Turning Timeless Film Classics Into Two-Minute Trailers
“Of late, though, Criterion has brought its touch to the trailer business with an entertaining and thoughtful series of online promotional teasers that interpret, rather than simply hype, their films – in less than two minutes.”
Mary Ward Brown, Prize-Winning Short Story Author, Dead At 95
“[She was] a small-town farmer’s daughter who resumed a literary career 25 years after putting it aside to run the family farm and raise a son, producing award-winning short stories set in the Deep South and a poignant memoir of life in rural Alabama.”
Georges Moustaki, 79, French Singer-Songwriter
“He was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star, the most famous of which was ‘Milord’ … Developing a reputation as a singer in his own right in the mid-1960s, the hirsute and heavily bearded Moustaki achieved fame with songs including the immigrant ballad ‘Le Métèque’ and ‘Ma Liberté’, a hymn to the 1960s free-living spirit.”
Hirshhorn Museum Director Resigns Over ‘Bubble’ Project Delays
“Richard Koshalek, the high-profile director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, announced his decision to resign by the end of the year after the Hirshhorn board’s split vote Thursday on the fate of the Seasonal Inflatable Structure project, informally known as the ‘Bubble’.”