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Here's a
nice bit of common sense, courtesy of the U.S. legal system: A ruling (embedded below) that tells
big media companies that they can't just send out blanket takedown notices when they see stuff
they don't like on YouTube or other Websites. Instead, they're going to have to actually
think about whether or not whoever submitted the clip (or whatever) has a right to do
so. Wired:
In the nation's first such ruling, a federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must
consider "fair use" of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites.
The 10-page decision (.pdf) came
a month after Universal Music told a San Jose, California
federal judge that copyright owners need not consider the "fair use" doctrine before issuing
takedown notices requiring online video-sharing sites to remove content.
The doctrine, recognized by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, permits limited use of
copyright materials without the owner's permission.
"Even if Universal is correct that fair use only excuses infringement, the fact remains that fair
use is a lawful use of a copyright," U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled. "Accordingly, in
order for a copyright owner to proceed under the DMCA with 'a good faith belief that use of the
material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the
law,' the owner must evaluate whether the material makes fair use of the copyright."
This doesn't actually mean that the mom in the Prince/UMG case will win her case, though -- she's
asking for damages, and the ruling simply says the case can proceed.
Yesterday Bloody-Disgusting was interviewed for a brand new Friday the 13th documentary entitled HIS
NAME WAS JASON, which is slated to premiere on Starz! in February of 2009 (a week before the
release of Platinum Dunes' remake) before hitting DVD soon thereafter from Anchor Bay
Entertainment. The doc is being directed by Dan Ferrands, the editor and co-publisher of the
incredible FRIDAY interview book, "Crystal Lake Memories" and two AMITYVILLE HORROR documentaries.
The documentary will be the definitive retrospective on the FRIDAY THE 13TH series and cover
everything from the franchise, even talk about the forthcoming remake. Brought to you by
MasiMedia Production, the film is being produced by Blake Reigle, Anthony Masi and Thommy Hutson.
Watch this spot for more details and an official release as it comes in.
Dropping a former coke addict into the midst of the Colombian drug trade for television purposes
doesn't seem like the smartest idea. But BBC
America has done exactly that, and not with just any former coke addict. It was
Blur bassist Alex James, who "once bragged
that he spent over a million pounds on cocaine at the height of his addiction," according to a
press release. Not only did James return intact, but the resulting documentary, Cocaine
Diaries: Alex James in Colombia, sounds pretty excellent. So who are we to judge?
Cocaine Diaries: Alex James in Colombia tells the story of James' trip to Colombia, upon
the invitation of the country's president, to better understand the origins and human cost of
cocaine. Shooting for Cocaine Diaries took him to the source of his former addiction,
"from riding shotgun with a drug kingpin's assassin to venturing deep into the rainforest to
watch coca leaves being harvested and turned into narcotics."
In a press release, James is quoted as saying, "It's a long way from a cheeky line at a dinner
party. It's terrifying."
Cocaine Diaries: Alex James in Colombia premieres as part of the BBC America
Reveals documentary series September 3 on BBC America.
Don`t watch if you haven`t seen the movie. End scene from the reasonably entertaining "Blair
Witch Project" (1999). Plot: "In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the
woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary... A year later their footage
was found."Rated 3.807 / 5 | 189 views | 5 comments
What do you get when you combine Davis Guggenheim-- the director of Al Gore's conservation
documentary An Inconvenient Truth and a director/producer for gruesome Western drama
"Deadwood"-- with Jack White, Jimmy Page, and the Edge? Nope, not an after school special in which
the three guitarists offer helpful tips on how to save the planet, and not a saloon fight scene
in which the axemen use their guitars as axes...on each other.
Actually, you get a pretty straightforward rock documentary called It Might Get Loud. According
to a press release, "The movie revolves around a singular day when Jimmy Page, the Edge, and Jack
White first met and sat down together to share their stories, teach, and play." The doc "captures
the guitarists as each explains and demonstrates how he changed the sound of the electric guitar
to suit his own distinctive musical style."
By David Lambert - The series follows Special Agents as they work cases ranging from street level
dealers all the way up to international drug traffickers. Get a first-hand look at what it is like
for... (more)
As was the case with HBO's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Lionsgate has
very discreetly opened Bill Maher's Religulous in two theaters -- one in New York,
the other in Los Angeles -- in an qualifying run for next year's Academy Awards.
As pointed out by Jeff Wells over at Hollywood Elsewhere, the
Academy's Rule 12 states
that any documentary hoping to qualify must open in both Los Angeles Country and the borough of
Manhattan for at least one week prior to the end of August. Having already premiered at the
Traverse City Film Festival, the doc will then formally show at the Toronto International Film
Festival next month, before opening proper on October 3rd.
However, I'm not sure that I entirely understand agree with the logic that any damage would be
done should any enterprising critic (like this guy) head out to one of these wholly
public showings and subsequently write up a review. Sure, I'm speaking as a guy who lives in the
O.C. of Fla., but seriously: What harm? What foul?
One of the most surprising films in the sort of "Holy crap? What the heck?! This is cool!"
vein to come out of SXSW film festival earlier this year was Blip Festival:
Reformat The Planet. It's all about chiptune music and the performers, and is beautifully
shot. It's hard to imagine Nintendo thinking people would be hacking into their Game Boys in order
to create full-fledged concerts, concerts that would one day spark a feature documentary and an
entire genre of music.
For one week, you can watch the impressive documentary at Pitchfork.tv. It's even broken up
into bite-sized chapters for you. Give it a looksee and you'll find yourself toe-tapping along to
the addictive 8-bit music throughout the film. It's beaten Wizard Rock as our current favorite geek music of
choice.
If
you squint your eyes just right and look at a photo of the late comedian Bill Hicks, he kind of resembles a young Russell Crowe (or vice versa).
So, it would have been really cool if the Australian actor had played Hicks around ten years ago,
when he was still in his 30s. But if we've learned anything from Kevin Spacey and Mike Myers
(respectively, star of the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea and star of an upcoming Keith
Moon biopic titled See Me Feel Me), you're never too old to play an icon who died young,
and therefore we must accept the fact that at close to 50 years old, Crowe is likely to portray
Hicks, who died from cancer at age 32. Fortunately for Crowe, he's good enough that it shouldn't be
too hard to believe such a portrayal.
The Oscar-winning actor
is quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald saying he's involved with a Hicks bio, "which
is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer." Never mind that
the quote doesn't sound like it was actually spoken by anyone, let alone Crowe, the article is
mostly about how the actor is spending time with his family now that Ridley Scott's Nottingham has been postponed.
Crowe also references other projects, including an unnamed documentary and the surfing gang movie
My Brother's Keeper,
based on the documentary Bra
Boys, which Crowe narrated. Stuart Beattie, who co-wrote
the doc, is currently working on a second draft of its adaptation.
The Weinstein Company has announced the special features for the upcoming Blu-ray release of the
2007 remake of 'Halloween', due to hit store shelves on October 21st. The disc will feature the
director's cut of the film which extends the run time by 11 minutes. As previously reported, the
disc will also feature a new 4.5 hour documentary on the film....
The video for Stephen Malkmus and the
Jicks' "Gardenia"-- plucked from this spring's Real Emotional
Trash-- is riddled with guest appearances from some of the biggest names in
indie rock, and beyond: Gregg "Girl Talk" Gillis, Weezer's Brian Bell, Mudhoney's Steve Turner,
the dudes of Ratatat, Modest Mouse's Joe Plummer, Gary Jarman of the Cribs, and Portland,
Oregon's mayor-elect Sam Adams.
What isn't clear, however, is whether the video features appearances from Malkmus himself, or any
of the Jicks. According to Willamette Week's Local Cut site, Malkmus turned the proceedings
over to Portland-based filmmaker/archivist Dan Woods, aka VJ Dantronix. The "Gardenia" clip is
his first-ever music video. But as far as being able to capture big-name folks on film, Woods is
in a class all by himself. Local Cut reports that Woods has spent years scoring interviews with
the likes of Kraftwerk, Belle & Sebastian, Sonic Youth, and the Flaming Lips just by reaching
out and contacting them. Seems simple enough, huh?
The "Gardenia" clip, which features the aforementioned crew lip-synching and noodling on air
guitars throughout the tune, premiered in Portland over the weekend, according to Spin.com. Folks like Spoon's Britt Daniel, the Thermals, Janet
Weiss of the Jicks, and Weiss' former Sleater-Kinney bandmate Carrie Brownstein were in
attendance. Spin.com reports that Malkmus himself had family obligations, and could not attend.
Spin.com reports that the "Gardenia" clip is expected to hit the internet later this week, though
a snippet is
available right now, via Local Cut:
As for Woods, he's working on a documentary collecting his interview footage. It's tentatively
called Music Is Everything and should be completed in 2009.
Malkmus and the Jicks will be hitting the road
once again later this month for a spin around the UK, with a mess of North American
dates to follow in the fall.
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Meant to have this up sooner, but my internet connection has been sketchy all
day, to say the least. For metalheads out there, it’s a big
release. I can’t say that Slipknot is really my thing, but I know they have a
big fanbase, the self identified “maggots”, so here it is.
SLIPKNOT’s new album, “All Hope Is Gone”, is scheduled for release on August
26. In addition to the standard edition of “All Hope Is Gone”, a special edition of
the LP will be released featuring three bonus tracks, expanded artwork and a bonus DVD containing
“Nine: The Making Of All Hope Is Gone” a 35-minute documentary directed by SLIPKNOT
percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan.
Track Listing:
01.Execute                                      Â
01:49
02.Gematria (the Killing
Name)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
06:02
03.Sulfer                                       Â
04:38
04.Psychosocial                                 Â
04:44
05.Dead
Memories                                Â
04:29
06.Vendetta                                     Â
05:16
07.Butcher’s
Hook                               Â
04:15
08.Gehenna                                      Â
06:53
09.This Cold
Black                              Â
04:40
10.Wherein Lies
Continue                        Â
05:37
11.Snuff                                        Â
04:36
12.All Hope is
Gone                             Â
04:48
13.Child of Burning
Time                        Â
05:10
14.Vermillion Pt.2 (Bloodstone
Mix)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
03:40
15.’til We
Die                                  Â
05:46
Genre: Metal Encoder: LAME Type: Album Quality: VBR/44,1/Joint-Stereo Songs: 15 Grabber: Audiograbber Rls Date: 19-08-2008 Source: CDDA Company: roadrunner Size: 117.4 MB Cat Nr: n/a Length: 72:23 min
Filesharers who think they’ve scored an advance copy
of Ben Folds’ new record should take a closer listen. Folds recently admitted to recording
an entire “fake
album” during an overnight studio session and subsequently leaking the tracks himself.
[PunkNews.org]
Problems with the RIAA have forced Muxtape, a popular website allowing users to create online mixtapes, to temporarily
shut down.
[Wired.com]
The Islamic opposition party in Malaysia is urging its government to cancel an upcoming Avril Lavigne concert on account of the show being “too
sexy.” [CNN.com]
Neil Young has tapped Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie as openers for his North American tour, which kicks off this October in Minneapolis. [Billboard.com]
Bloc Party’s third album,Intimacy, is getting the same rush-release treatment as the Raconteurs’ Consolers of the
Lonely. Although the album will be physically released on October 28th, fans can download
the digital tracks starting this Thursday. [RollingStone.com]
Jimmy Page, Jack White, and the Edge, three guitarists who developed their own
signature sound, are profiled in the documentary film “It Might Get
Loud.” The film premieres next month at the Toronto Film Festival. [NME.com]
Oasis fans who’re awaiting the release of Dig Out Your Soul can
tide themselves over with a new music video for “The Shock of the Lightning.” [Stereogum.com]
It's a slow week, packed mainly with television box sets, but there are a few little-known
films you might want to check out.
Please Vote for
Me
This was a film that I was dying to see at TIFF last year, but scheduling conflicts kept me from
it. Luckily, the highly praised Please Vote for Me is now hitting DVD shelves.
Imagine a group of third-grade students putting Tracy Flick to shame as they hold a democratic
election for school monitor. In my day (man, that phrase makes me feel old...), school elections
boiled down to some crappy posters and speeches, all resulting in a popularity contest. These
Chinese students, however, have taken a cue from the political bigwigs. We're talking political
consultants, polling, and exploitation -- basically a real election full of tiny tots.
Unfortunately, the only extra on this release is a theatrical trailer, but considering the reviews
and how purely awesome this film sounds, I bet it's still worth it.
I gotta say, the BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) really knows how to make a documentary. From their
sweeping exploration of ‘Planet Earth,’ to their intimate visit to the
‘Galapagos’ Islands, to...
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Meant to have this up sooner, but my internet connection has been sketchy all
day, to say the least. For metalheads out there, it’s a big
release. I can’t say that Slipknot is really my thing, but I know they have a
big fanbase, the self identified “maggots”, so here it is.
Filesharers who think they’ve scored an advance copy
of Ben Folds’ new record should take a closer listen. Folds recently admitted to recording
an entire 
