12.07.2006
Apathy Reigns Triumphant
I went to an excellent Director's Eye talk at the CSIF tonight with Sandi Sommers (interdisciplinary artist extraordinaire and co-founder of Road Pictures). The talk was excellent, the turnout depressing: the organizer, me and one other person. It's not THAT cold out. It's not THAT close to Christmas. Come on people, what's the deal? Afraid you might learn something new?
And coming home in that state of mind, I did a little internet surfing and ended up at Boing Boing reading this:
I followed the link to the Globe & Mail article "Classic docs sent back to the vault: Copyright material too costly to renew" to read the further depressing statement: "The [Documentary Organization of Canada's] white paper also details how imminent changes to Canadian copyright law—probably coming early in the new year—could make matters even worse."
Great. People suck. Well, not all people. Not the people who showed up tonight. But a lot of other people.
In the immortal words of Bill the Cat: "Ack Thpppbbt!!"
P.S. All ranting aside, my thoughts about the Director's Eye talk itself are posted on my Film Blog.
And coming home in that state of mind, I did a little internet surfing and ended up at Boing Boing reading this:
Canada's documentaries lost to copyright
Canada's taxpayer-funded National Film Board has underwritten many brilliant documentaries that are no longer available due to the prohibitive cost of re-licensing the copyrights for the materials they incidentally feature... Quebec filmmaker Sylvie Van Brabant's film Remous/Earthwalk has been withdrawn from public circulation because its main character sings 30 seconds of a recognizable tune whose rights the National Film Board has deemed too expensive to renew.
I followed the link to the Globe & Mail article "Classic docs sent back to the vault: Copyright material too costly to renew" to read the further depressing statement: "The [Documentary Organization of Canada's] white paper also details how imminent changes to Canadian copyright law—probably coming early in the new year—could make matters even worse."
Great. People suck. Well, not all people. Not the people who showed up tonight. But a lot of other people.
In the immortal words of Bill the Cat: "Ack Thpppbbt!!"
P.S. All ranting aside, my thoughts about the Director's Eye talk itself are posted on my Film Blog.
Labels: film, pop culture
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