http://www.artsjournal.com/media.shtml Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 08:12:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "In order to download (or upload) files on any peer-to-peer network whatsoever, all on-campus users have to pass an online quiz on copyright infringement. But not just once. Passing the test -- with a perfect score -- enables peer-to-peer access for six hours on the user's on-campus registered machines. The next time, the student, staff or faculty member has to go to the intranet Web page and take the randomized test again."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/a_missouri_univ.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/a_missouri_univ.shtml media Fri, 16 May 2008 08:00:43 -0800 "Faith-based campaigns have failed to deliver big numbers even for such recent Christian-themed films as "The Nativity Story" (2006, $38 million) or "Facing the Giants" (2006, $10 million). For that reason, several marketing executives say they are shying away from faith-specific outreach."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/hollywood_souri.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/hollywood_souri.shtml media Fri, 16 May 2008 07:59:21 -0800 "Senators, on a voice vote, approved a resolution nullifying the new, relaxed ownership rules adopted in December by the Federal Communications Commission. The vote moved lawmakers a step closer toward overturning the new FCC rule."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/us_senate_votes.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/us_senate_votes.shtml media Fri, 16 May 2008 07:46:21 -0800 "Reality TV is just a vehicle for bringing out our inner pervert, right? Yeah, right. The truth is reality-show fans are no different from fans of sitcoms or dramas or sports or any other type of programming. They like compelling characters, exciting storylines and humour. They aren't twisted voyeurs."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/reality_shows_n.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/reality_shows_n.shtml media Thu, 15 May 2008 18:23:34 -0800 "Blindness opened the Cannes Film Festival last night, receiving more respect than love for a film that avoids thriller clichés yet fails to deliver all it promises... It is a more than respectable choice to open Cannes, which is often content to begin the big show with pictures of far less substance."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/highprofile_thr.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/highprofile_thr.shtml media Thu, 15 May 2008 06:24:49 -0800 "Hollywood's summer movies promise to be a little fresher, more original and funnier than usual. And that could be a problem for an industry that has done well lately by peddling the familiar... This year's more inventive pictures, whether they win or lose individually, may come up short as a group."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/by_getting_crea.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/by_getting_crea.shtml media Thu, 15 May 2008 06:17:52 -0800 "Canada's broadcast regulator plans to hold hearings into whether 'new media,' such as online TV, radio and mobile video, should be regulated... The regulator, which presides over Canadian content requirements and funding rules for TV and radio, decided in 1999 not to regulate new media platforms."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/canada_to_recon.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/canada_to_recon.shtml media Thu, 15 May 2008 06:02:33 -0800 "All the rules are changing. Traditional platform releases, the heart and soul of the independent film biz, are being threatened. Studio specialty arms in particular are going through an identity crisis as they plot new distribution strategies to compensate for too many films and ever more expensive projects."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/specialty_movie.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/specialty_movie.shtml media Wed, 14 May 2008 19:09:28 -0800 "He said the proposed tax change in Bill C-10 would cause an exodus of Canadian filmmakers to other countries, and would shatter Canada's fragile industry of independent filmmakers."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/david_cronenber.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/david_cronenber.shtml media Wed, 14 May 2008 18:56:29 -0800 "The other, sadder truth is that the foreign films shown here, and at big festivals like Berlin, Venice, Toronto and New York, have never had less an impact on the average U.S. moviegoer than they do now. Long gone is the time when every American with a pretense to culture felt obliged to know all about ten or twenty top European or Asian directors."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/does_cannes_mat.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/does_cannes_mat.shtml media Wed, 14 May 2008 18:54:31 -0800 The entertainment giant is developing an "emerging media and advertising research lab" to try to figure out why people watch the shows they do.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/disney_wants_to.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/disney_wants_to.shtml media Wed, 14 May 2008 18:11:49 -0800 "Each year, headlines out of Cannes treat the event as an improbable David and Goliath showdown between art cinema and Hollywood, but increasingly the festival is bridging the gap... From the Hollywood perspective, this year's Cannes story is somewhat light on the mainstream goods."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/hollywood_playi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/hollywood_playi.shtml media Wed, 14 May 2008 06:47:03 -0800 Cannes opens today, and while "everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/uncertain_prosp.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/uncertain_prosp.shtml media Wed, 14 May 2008 06:18:00 -0800 "The brightness of many of YouTube's original stars (Brookers, LisaNova, thewinekone, et al.) has waned, making it seem more difficult for homegrown stars to succeed on clever writing and talent alone. Now it's turned into a kind of contest about who can hit the high note at just the right moment to grab a microsecond of collective attention. And a group of five Belgian filmmakers/pranksters/activists may be one of the early masters of this game."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/how_to_hit_it_b.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/how_to_hit_it_b.shtml media Tue, 13 May 2008 07:56:48 -0800 "ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC had nearly 9 percent fewer viewers in April and May so far than during the same period a year ago."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/network_tv_losi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/network_tv_losi.shtml media Tue, 13 May 2008 07:46:19 -0800 Broadcast network ratings have been declining year-to-year for many years, but "a confluence of several difficult dynamics came together" to make this a particularly bad season... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/a_serious_drift.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/a_serious_drift.shtml media Tue, 13 May 2008 07:37:33 -0800 "The debate is the latest example of how the economics of traditional media are being upended by the growing popularity of video-sharing Web sites like YouTube, and how audiences' tastes and habits are being transformed in the process. According to Internet marketing research firm comScore, 134 million Americans view online videos each month, with YouTube alone attracting 80 million unique visitors monthly."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/actors_vs_holly.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/actors_vs_holly.shtml media Mon, 12 May 2008 19:08:27 -0800 "Entire industries have been built on developing viral campaigns. Movie and games companies lead the way with clever, funny and attention-grabbing ideas. These are shrewd campaigns which normal web users will instinctively Fwd to their friends." But when organizations try to "manufacture" viral campaigns...... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/when_viral_mark.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/when_viral_mark.shtml media Mon, 12 May 2008 18:16:04 -0800 "Clint Eastwood is in the main competition with "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, pitting him against, among others, Kornel Mundruczo of Hungary in the kind of David-and-Goliath contest on which Cannes thrives."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/cannes_do_compe.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/cannes_do_compe.shtml media Mon, 12 May 2008 06:21:54 -0800 "Several television series have tried to translate the Internet's user-generated content to television. But a new National Geographic Channel special is believed to be the first hourlong documentary to be inspired by a YouTube clip." It probably won't be the last.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/from_youtube_to.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/from_youtube_to.shtml media Sun, 11 May 2008 08:47:00 -0800 The latest installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise hasn't hit theaters yet, but the Internet critics already have their knives out. "Movie studios increasingly tend to protect their biggest bets from advance showings... Bad notices could keep the more ambivalent moviegoers from attending and thwart a truly huge box office haul."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/hiding_your_fli.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/hiding_your_fli.shtml media Sun, 11 May 2008 08:37:18 -0800 "It is a festival that sometimes appears to be suffering severe personality disorder, uncertain whether it exists to celebrate art or commerce. When the two worlds collide, confusion often ensues. Parties and photo opportunities risk distracting attention from the once-important fact that there are films to be shown."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_problem_wit_10.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_problem_wit_10.shtml media Fri, 09 May 2008 05:49:29 -0800 "The county retains the right to shutter a property for up to a year for violating ordinance 13.90.010 and also gives local authorities the right to bring a civil action to 'temporarily restrain, preliminarily enjoin, and/or permanently enjoin the person or persons intentionally conducting, or knowingly maintaining or permitting the public nuisance from further conducting, maintaining, or permitting such a public nuisance.' Property owners who knowingly permit such activity can also be dinged $1,000 for each counterfeited work produced on the property."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/los_angeles_dec.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/los_angeles_dec.shtml media Thu, 08 May 2008 19:24:20 -0800 An aspiring Canadian filmmaker "launched a Web site earlier this year to raise C$1 million ($988,457) and is selling frames of his yet-to-be-made film over the Internet for C$10 a piece. In return, investors will receive a credit in his movie, advertisement rights on his site and a cut of the profits if the film makes money."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/filmmaker_tris.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/filmmaker_tris.shtml media Thu, 08 May 2008 19:19:30 -0800 "Negotiations between Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild were dashed Tuesday when contract talks ended on a bitter note, fueling anxiety over the prospect of another strike. After three weeks of talks, studios walked away from the table, saying that negotiations were 'thrust into reverse' by what they called 'unreasonable demands'."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/actors_and_stud.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/actors_and_stud.shtml media Wed, 07 May 2008 18:13:18 -0800