This week's Law and Video podcast is now available at http://www.lawandvideo.com. Listen Live Tuesdays at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern, or download and listen at your convenience. This week's topics: I've got a copyright, what do I need to do to protect it? Statutes of limitations, doctrine of laches Director's former ...
This week's Law and Video podcast is now available at http://www.lawandvideo.com Listen Live Tuesdays at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern, or download and listen at your convenience.This week's topics: City of New York revises permit and insurance requirements for small video productions. Credit for video game ...
Music is an integral part of any filmmaker’s toolbox. Proper selection of music can help tell a story, set a mood, and build suspense. For most independent productions, however, music is either under-budgeted or not budgeted at all. Even when there IS a music budget, it’s often re-allocated to more pressing expenses during ...
Well, I'm glad to be back at it after several weeks of upper-respiratory troubles. This week's Law and Video podcast is now available at http://www.lawandvideo.com Listen Live Tuesdays at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern, or download and listen at your convenience. This week's topics: WGA Strike Digital Millenium Copyright Act ...
NPR reported this morning on the unforeseen consequence of theatregoers attending off-broadway shows in greater numbers now that Broadway stagehands have walked-out. Even with this surge in attendance at smaller shows (Off-broadway theatres seat 100-499), some estimates of the losses to the theatre and related businesses aproach seventeen million dollars per ...
Last time the WGA went on strike, (19-1/2 years ago), the Cable networks had a growth spurt, with audiences tuning in looking for something new. This year, as the WGA goes on strike, some believe that the Web will be the delivery mechanism for content that captures rerun-weary ...
Backstage.com has an interesting article drawn from information contained in the League's annual demographic report: On Broadway, Growing Diversity in Audience: "Tourists account for approximately 65 percent of the 12.3 million tickets purchased for Broadway shows during the 2006-2007 season." The article also suggests that among theatergoers, 26 percent of tickets were ...
For the first time in nearly 20 years, members of the writers' union, Writer's Guild of America are on strike. The last strike, in May of 1988, lasted five months, costing the industry more than half a billion dollars. Some shows, such as NBC's "The Tonight Show" ...