Oh, all right, Dr. Seuss I ain’t

Anyway, last night I decided to show my dad the trailer for the new Batman movie; my boss had showed me at work, and I’d written down the URL so I could find it again later. Unfortunately, I wrote it down wrong. It wasn’t ATasteOfTheTheatrical.com, it was www.ATasteFORTheTheatrical.com, which is much more entertaining and less frustrating.
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I haven’t mentioned it, but some time back I joined a YahooGroup called FilmBudgeting. At the time, I was still trying to become a film producer on my own terms, so a group of active producers discussing the actual budgeting of films struck me as potentially educational. It’s more strictly moderated than any other group I’ve ever seen (sometimes I want to tell him to lighten up, but, well, it’s his group - he can do what he wants), but there is real discussion there. Of course, I’ve since determined that I’m more interested in the digital side of things, but I haven’t left the group because it’s still sometimes interesting.

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I wonder if I may be a bit too vocal about my opinions on the state of copyright; I had two different people tell me about the article on Slate yesterday (and it’s almost the day before yesterday - I’m staying up too late!). One was my boss, who told me about it at work. I checked it out and sent myself a link so I could refer back to it when I got home. When I checked my email, I had two messages with the same link - the one I sent myself, and one from my mom.

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After I came back from DragonCon and started corresponding with the lawyer I met there, I realized I didn’t understand enough about copyright to properly discuss some of the things I wanted to discuss, so I decided I should fully read the book I got at SIGGRAPH back in 2003 – Digital Copyright by Jessica Litman. I’d only skimmed it before. I didn’t expect to really get into it, but she writes in a very conversational style, and the issue is one that interests me very much. Before I knew it, I had half the book marked with random slips of paper and old mailing envelopes – whatever was close to hand. I have written before about what I think should be done to solve the “fanfic violates copyright, and if we try to make money on it TPTB will come down on us” problem. I seem to recall that during that incident, someone posted a comment that “George Lucas is going to eat your face,” which was so amusing that someone on F_W immortalized it in icon form. But that’s neither here nor there.

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Again I started a reply to a comment and got long-winded.

The question is, are you looking for a job or starting a business?
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