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How to Get the Rights You Need!: January 2012

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Some Love from China for Doc Filmmakers. Doc production is a labor of love, so we are always glad to see them get a little in return. This post is devoted to the doc film, with some news from far and near that might help them along their way a bit. The first is a story about a windfall for the traditional doc resulting from China's recent decision to crack down on reality TV and its perceived vulgarity. Hamilton cites the recent NY Times story.

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How to Get the Rights You Need!: Copyright Infringement: What It Is... What it Ain't

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Wednesday, September 14, 2011. The industry custom of obtaining 'clearance' establishes nothing other than the unfortunate reality that many filmmakers may deem it wise to pay a small sum up front for a written consent to avoid later having to spend a small fortune to defend unmeritorious lawsuits.". Polydoros v. 20th Century Fox Film Corp. The above tells you not only what you need to "clear," therefore, but what you don't. Some of the principles involved are:. Bottom lin...

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How to Get the Rights You Need!: May 2011

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Monday, May 16, 2011. Matt Damon Schools Wall Street, and the White House. in "Inside Job". With the DVD release of. The Oscar-winning doc that clearly lays out the players and the scheme that led to the 2008 market crash and massive bank failure, Hollywood sends a message to Wall Street, and the White House. That film, narrated by Matt Damon, gives new insight into Obama’s jab at Damon in the President's recent speech at the. White House Correspondents Dinner. We get a ve...

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How to Get the Rights You Need!: Oprah: Don’t Try This In Paris!

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Thursday, March 31, 2011. Oprah: Don’t Try This In Paris! A federal judge in Pennsylvania has tossed out a book author's. 100 million lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey. How America Elects Her Presidents. The judge in this case ruled that the use of questions from the book (which Oprah supposedly read out loud in a quiz session with a whiz kid first grader, who got the answers right. btw) didn’t constitute infringement. Oprah is pictured above in a publicity photo for her.

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How to Get the Rights You Need!: December 2011

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Monday, December 19, 2011. Donald Rumsfeld, Spicy Peanuts and Christmas Miracles. This is one of those stories that is just begging for an avalanche of bad puns (are there any other kind? And the authors of this Time article. About how Donald Rumsfeld's picture ended up on Tyrrell's spicy peanuts - have not held back. ("Whichever way you look at it, it's nuts."). The one way they haven't looked at is from a publicity rights perspective. Posted by Keith Relkin.

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How to Get the Rights You Need!: September 2011

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Wednesday, September 28, 2011. In 1970, famous Yippie, anarchist, anti-capitalist and overall rebel Abbie Hoffman published a manifesto on sticking it to the man, entitled Steal This Book. As described on Amazon. It nevertheless conveys a serious message to all would-be revolutionaries: You don't have to take it anymore.". As this recent story in the Kansas City Star. Or, in the words of Hoffman, "You don't have to take it anymore.". Authors say use of fair use is growing.

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How to Get the Rights You Need!: Handshake Deals Are Alive And Well In Hollywood

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Handshake Deals Are Alive And Well In Hollywood. Handshake deals, oral or verbal agreements. Call them what you will, they still hold weight in Hollywood. A show developer has won a $4 million claim against A&E.again! This time in appeals court. The high court upheld the South Carolina court award to the plaintiff who pitched and developed the hit reality show Flip This Hous. E (remember the housing bubble? Yeah, back then). The oral agreement has ...

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How to Get the Rights You Need!: Tattoo Mania! Don't We Own The Artwork On Our Bodies?

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Thursday, July 28, 2011. Don't We Own The Artwork On Our Bodies? Most of us have followed the Hangover 2 / Tattoo saga from the highly publicized efforts to prevent the movie's opening this past May. This summer saw the resolution of the very high-profile lawsuit against Warrner Bros over the film's depiction of a tattoo intended to parody Mike Tyson's tribal facial tattoo. It possibly came as a big surprise to a lot of people, not the least of whom were the Warner. They w...

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How to Get the Rights You Need!: July 2011

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How to Get the Rights You Need! Thursday, July 28, 2011. Don't We Own The Artwork On Our Bodies? Most of us have followed the Hangover 2 / Tattoo saga from the highly publicized efforts to prevent the movie's opening this past May. This summer saw the resolution of the very high-profile lawsuit against Warrner Bros over the film's depiction of a tattoo intended to parody Mike Tyson's tribal facial tattoo. It possibly came as a big surprise to a lot of people, not the least of whom were the Warner. They w...