“Under current rules, there has been a risk of being sued for breach of copyright if clips of films, TV shows or songs were used without consent. But the new European Copyright Directive will allow the use of the material so long as it is fair and does not compete with the original version.”
Tag: 09.29.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.29.14
Philip Roth, Le Guin Take on Amazon
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-29
A Museum Merger That Seems Sensible
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-29
What have the Romans ever done for us?
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-09-28
Telling the World What Dance Means, 21st Century Style
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-09-28
Do You Think You Know Gene Kelly?
AJBlog: Fresh Pencil | Published 2014-09-29
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We’ve Known The Internet Was Broken For Decades. Now What Do We Do?
“Because the net is built on software that gets endlessly used and reused, it’s littered with code that dates back decades, and some of it never gets audited for security bugs.”
Afraid To Fly? Aside From The Terrifying Crash Shows, Hollywood Can Help You
“Air Hollywood has become a go-to destination for filming aviation scenes in Hollywood. Its aircraft sets and props have been featured in countless TV shows, commercials and movies and not just for moments of terror.”
Author David Mitchell Claims A Bitter Writer In His New Book Is Himself, But Everyone Else Thinks It’s Martin Amis
“Either the monster in his mirror has led him on a dangerous journey he didn’t realise he was taking (though it’s hard to believe no editor would have pointed it out to him), or he’s belatedly woken up to the fact that taking a pop at his literary elders is not necessarily the smartest career move.”
Google, Europe, America, And The Right To Be Forgotten
“In Europe, the right to privacy trumps freedom of speech; the reverse is true in the United States. ‘Europeans think of the right to privacy as a fundamental human right, in the way that we think of freedom of expression or the right to counsel’.”
The Most Unusual College President In America
“Over the course of nearly forty years, [Leon] Botstein – a historian, writer, and conductor – has built Bard in his own polymath image,” revamping the curriculum, packing the faculty with well-known intellectuals, founding alternative high schools, operating degree programs in prisons … Everything but running sports programs and hitting alumni up for money, the way normal college presidents do.