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Mashup
Great fan mashup of "Comfort and Joy" from Bat Boy: The Musical with some obscure animated film... (Thanks, Susan!)...
May 19, 2008
The Expelled idiocy knows no bounds
It's not unusual at all for early cuts of a film to "temp in" commercial music tracks. Sometimes those tracks end up being licensed for the commercial release of the film, sometimes they're replaced with cheaper songs, sometimes the film's...
April 17, 2008
Copyright expansion: Now and forever!
Being a member of ASCAP means that I get their lovely newsletters informing me how seriously they take the impact of copyright expansion on our culture. For example, they encourage me to attend the ASCAP-sponsored WIPO conference at Vanderbilt University,...
October 17, 2007
YouTube is eager to be Kent Hovind's bitch
The latest Kent Hovind scandal appears to be a larger scale repeat of the Uri Geller one. The facts as I'm able to determine them: 1. Kent Hovind, an evangelist for the crackpot Bible-based pseudoscience called creationism, distributes many videos...
September 16, 2007
Kent Hovind going copyright crazy
I picked the wrong time to take a break from the internets. Just got a message from Brian Sapient wondering why the hell I wasn't writing about a scandal that mixes two of my favorite subjects: copyright law abuse to...
September 14, 2007
Happy Fair Use Day
Enjoy it while you can!...
July 11, 2007
Four Eyed Monsters
Free. It's drilled into just about every artist at some point by generally well-meaning advisors: Your copyright is the most valuable thing you own. There's some truth to it. But it's nice to see a pair of filmmakers with a...
June 10, 2007
Sapient vs. Geller
Has been filed: "Uri Geller may not like it when people question his paranormal abilities. However, he is not allowed to stifle public criticism by misusing the law," said EFF Staff Attorney Marcia Hoffman. "If the publication of a video...
May 09, 2007
It's an Easter miracle!
Proving that at least one resurrection really did happen on this day, the Rational Response Squad YouTube account is back up. Some history. A couple facts: Atheists who spoke up in defense of a Christian pastor whose single video was...
April 08, 2007
Schizo YouTube
Here's an interesting interview by a YouTube editor with ParkRidge47, the guy who made the "Vote Different" mashup that is largely made up of Apple's "1984" commercial. The weird thing is that YouTube is giving its implicit endorsement to a...
March 30, 2007
Uri Geller abuses DMCA to cover up embarrassing YouTube videos
The latest person to discover how easy it is to abuse U.S. copyright law appears to be Uri Geller, the self-proclaimed "psychic" who has been fooling people about his supernatural powers for decades now. Geller has been exposed as a...
March 30, 2007
Steve Jobs' snow job
Cory Doctorow writes in Salon on how DRM (digital restrictions management) benefits Apple: DRM's principal effect is legal, not technical. Since the passage of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it's been illegal to break DRMs in this country. It...
February 23, 2007
Peter Baxter evades questions again
Well, the USC event was a near-bust. The one person who should have been there, Slamdance Film Festival director Peter Baxter, was a no-show. Because Peter Baxter has failed to offer a coherent explanation for booting Super Columbine Massacre out...
February 15, 2007
Slamdance, Columbine and me: Get the full story tomorrow night
While I was at Slamdance, I briefly mentioned on this blog a controversy involving the indie game Super Columbine Massacre by Danny Ledonne. What I didn't mention is that I personally got involved in this controversy while serving on the...
February 13, 2007
Dear Steve Jobs,
I'd be happy to offer The God Who Wasn't There soundtrack without DRM on the iTunes Music Store. In fact, I'd do it "in a heartbeat." Just tell me where to sign. Best regards, Brian...
February 07, 2007
Shorter MPAA
We want to sell fewer DVDs and make our customers hate us....
November 17, 2006
Copyright law is good for culture
Always....
October 20, 2006
Swarm of Angels
CC film: A Swarm Of Angels aims to create and distribute the first collaborative internet film. The aim is to use community participation and funding to make a film that would traditionally cost $3-4 million for just $1.75 million....
October 19, 2006
Freedom
Just try to imagine this happening ten years ago: 1. David Byrne records a song called "My Fair Lady" and releases it under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus license. 2. DJ Madson grabs part of that song and uses it...
July 04, 2006
Copyright extremism
Soon after the founding of the United States, the copyright term was 14 years, renewable once. This term proved to be a reasonable amount of time for authors to exclusively exploit their original works. It worked quite well for a...
June 13, 2006
The end of the world
Remember how confused you were when you heard about the iTunes Music Store? Wait, you thought, the company that created that store is Apple Computer. Does that mean that Apple Corps Ltd., the British company that owns the rights to...
May 08, 2006
Orrin Hatch wants to blow up your computer
That's why he should be fired....
May 04, 2006
Net neutrality
Calvinist or atheist, if you use the internet, it matters to you: "Net neutrality" is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking...
May 02, 2006
Help iPac
Fight the Hollywood cartels....
April 26, 2006
"Net neutrality"
If you use the internet, it matters to you. Watch the 2-minute video....
April 21, 2006
Copy "The God Who Wasn't There"
It is now permissible to make a DVD-R copy of The God Who Wasn't There DVD even beyond fair use, so long as the copy you make is given free to a Christian....
April 17, 2006
World back in balance
The editorial board at the L.A. Times may support copyright reform, but the op-ed page is happy to host penitents kneeling before the altar of copyright extremism. Coming up next: Pictures of the dead, hanged bodies of the guilty, wearing...
April 03, 2006
Wow
The Los Angeles Times, hometown newspaper of the industry that has as a sacred principle the goal of a perpetual copyright, apparently supports copyright reform: Copyright law is already too far-reaching, particularly in the U.S., where many works are automatically...
March 14, 2006
Creative Commons
Lessig: So we have 10 days left in the Creative Commons campaign. This is not a drill. We are down to the last $100,000, and really need your support — both for the very cool projects we’re launching (see, e.g.,...
December 22, 2005
Digital Production Buzz
I was on the radio show Digital Production Buzz tonight, talking about copyright and Creative Commons. You can find the sound file here....
November 17, 2005
Don't trust CDs from Sony
Advocates of digital restrictions management like to scare us away from file-sharing programs with warnings about the viruses and spyware that lurk in those apps. But it turns out it's probably safer to steal Sony's music than to trust Sony's...
November 14, 2005
EFF call for help
EFF: Dear friend of digital freedom, Did you know that Xerox color laser printers print a series of secret dots on every page that identify the time and date you printed a document plus the serial number of the printer...
October 26, 2005
Participatory Culture contest winner
Participatory Culture has announced the winner of its design contest. And the winner is...me! Actually, the winner is Miguel Gomes Correia. But he heard about the contest from this here blog, so I get a $200 referral prize myself. I'm...
August 30, 2005
DTV player for Mac OS X
The Participatory Culture folks write: This is a big day for us-- we just released a Beta of DTV for Mac OS X. You can download it now at http://participatoryculture.org/. It's totally free and open-source. The Windows version and full...
August 09, 2005
Echo Chamber Project
Kent Bye sends an email about the Echo Chamber Project: I think you might be interested in watching the first episode of The Echo Chamber Project Vlog that uses new media technology to criticize and improve upon the old media:...
August 02, 2005
"Open Shoot"
Recently got an email from Nicolas Morel in Brussels, who is starting this initiative in open-source cinema. Get in on the ground floor....
August 01, 2005
Participatory Culture contest
Participatory Culture writes: Hello All -- Participatory Culture is pleased to announce -- appropriately enough -- an open-source design competition for our open-source internet TV platform, currently called DTV. You can win cash prizes by designing a new interface for...
July 19, 2005
Commons Music
New player on the free-culture scene. Damn radicals. They think it should be easy to create and distribute music. What about all the record execs who will be out of work? UPDATE: And one of the principals behind Commons Music,...
April 23, 2005
Participatory Culture Foundation
Downhill Battle never stops. Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video,...
April 18, 2005
Return of the Boston strangler
It isn't enough that the Australian version of the Screen Actors Guild has forbidden its members to participate in films licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Now that union has apparently declared its opposition to the very production of films licensed...
April 04, 2005
Free Culture Hero of the Day
Mark Cuban....
March 29, 2005
Yahoo and Creative Commons
Awesome. Yahoo and Creative Commons have launched an anxiety remover. Now you can search for media that you can use in your own stuff without worrying about being sued. Yahoo! Go check it out. Here's what you get when you...
March 24, 2005
"IP and Creativity" conference
In D.C.: Until recently, the United States has been the world center for creativity. We have attracted the best, the brightest and most creative people from around the world. Unfortunately, our nation has shifted course and a range of policies...
March 07, 2005
Bill Gates: Freedom is communism
Matt Stoller of iPac (join!) sends a note to members including this quote from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates : Question: In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with...
January 08, 2005
The background is owned
Christopher Sims started shooting his film about Army recruiting for the Iraq war in spring 2002. He'd love for you to see it, but you can't. He's still trying to figure out what footage he's allowed to use without being...
December 17, 2004
The slow death of culture
Essential viewing: A short called "Stories Untold," which shows doc filmmakers explaining in their own words what it is like to attempt to make films about our culture when that culture is owned--and the owners are, by turns, capricious, extortionate...
December 03, 2004
Ipac blog
Ipac (which I keep wanting to type as "iPac") now has a weblog. Its purpose? "To to keep track of the politics and semi-lunacy surrounding excessive copyright." (According to an email from iPac's Matt Stoller.) Check it out....
December 03, 2004
Ipac
Copyfighter Donna Wentworth wants you to spend your coffee money on Ipac instead. Donate soon, before somebody copyrights money and you can't even spend it without hiring a lawyer and paying a license fee....
December 02, 2004
Save the iPod
"Students at a dozen colleges around the country are organizing to teach their peers about the consequences of overly broad copyright law, hoping to prevent creative freedom from being stifled."
November 10, 2004
Arts Project Contest
Now there's another way to get a free iPod. And lots more. An announcement from the Center for the Study of the Public Domain: You are invited to enter: The ARTS PROJECT CONTEST WHAT: A contest to create a 2-minute...
October 01, 2004
Our Girlie-Man Governor
John Edgell gets it. If at first you don't succeed in humiliating the powerful into recognizing fair use, humiliate, humiliate again. By the way, Sue Me, Asshole is now free....
August 16, 2004
Free Cinema
The site's not ready yet, but almost. You can see the site right here. Some of the links don't work yet. Hardest thing has been finalizing the links page. I don't want to send out the announcement without making sure...
August 12, 2004
"Sue Me": Now available as a bribe
Have you ever called your Congresscritters? If you're a political telephone virgin, now's an excellent time to pop that cherry. And if you're a call-to-Congress slut, there's good reason to do it again. Slut.
May 13, 2004
A package in the mail
I was tingling with anticipation when I got to the lobby. The mailman turned to me and handed me...
May 05, 2004
Maria Shriver, easily offended
CNN: "Schwarzenegger became aware of the doll when his wife, Maria Shriver, visited a Washington gift shop.... She was offended and asked the shopkeeper to remove it from the shelves."
May 04, 2004
Fair Use Press ad campaign
This one-week Sue Me, Asshole ad cost $125. As soon as revenues from book sales and donations reach $125, I'll buy another ad, probably a Blogad. Any suggestions for the next ad buy are welcome, as are any donations...
May 04, 2004
Bobblehead blogged
I talked to a certain national newspaper of note today about Fair Use Press's Sue Me, Asshole. They seem interested in covering it, but there's that whole...er, penis aspect. How does a respectable family newspaper cover this story while avoiding the penile details? We'll see. Thank God the blogosphere doesn't have any standards. The links happened fast and furious today, spreading ridicule throughout the internet. The governor's shortcomings have been exposed for all to see...
May 04, 2004
To Martin Singer
Dear Marty: Remember how back in 1999 I got pushed around by thugs working on behalf of your client Bruce Willis in Hailey, Idaho? And remember how you later called me up and threatened legal action against me for what you called my "tortious conduct"?...
May 03, 2004
Bobblegate roundup
Governor Schwarzenegger's crude attempt to intimidate Todd Bosley is blowing up in his face, as well it should. Here's a roundup of stories about Bobblegate...
May 02, 2004
iTunes 4.5: Now with 30% less freedom!
Those songs you bought at Apple's iTunes Music Store sure are depreciating fast. Hope you didn't think those rights you had were permanent or anything.
April 29, 2004
QUICKTIME MOVIE: "Trump Fires Bush"
The "Trump Fires Bush" site needs help hosting this funny movie download, so here it is: Trump Fires Bush.
April 28, 2004
David Bowie lets fans bootleg his songs
David Bowie gets it.
April 27, 2004
Todd Haynes' "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story"
The 1987 movie that the director of Poison and Far from Heaven illegally made using Barbie dolls as his illegal cast is now available illegally for the low low price of free.
April 27, 2004
Gabba gabba nay
Another film you can't see. "OVER the last 15 months, End of the Century, a documentary about punk rock's founding fathers, the Ramones, has been shown at major film festivals in New York, Toronto and Berlin."
April 26, 2004
Copyright laws: "The killing fields of culture"
If you don't know Jed Horowitz's chilling story, there's a good and succinct write-up by J.D. Lasica.
April 20, 2004
"Killer of Sheep"
"Despite the praise and honors, Killer of Sheep never found its way into theatrical release."
April 11, 2004
ClearPlay DVD player
It's a very exciting area of technology. Members of the Directors Guild of America are embarrassing themselves by reacting to it with such fear and hysteria.
April 08, 2004
Walt Disney creativity
It's probably not much of a stretch to say that the cartoon character we know as Mickey Mouse was born one Sunday in April 1900...
April 08, 2004
Free Culture wiki
 Now there's a Free Culture wiki by Aaron Swartz.
March 30, 2004
Free Culture online
I got my hardcover version of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture and am reading it now. Will post thoughts soon. You can read it for free online here. (Via Lessig)...
March 30, 2004
Free Cinema 'update'
A reader writes: First of all, Brian, I would just like to say that I am an avid reader of your site and enjoy your commentary and insights. Second, when the hell are you going to launch the Free Cinema...
March 29, 2004
Free Culture is free
Wow. Lawrence Lessig reveals on his blog that his book Free Culture is available as a free online download at the book's official site. (You can also buy the paper version today.)...
March 25, 2004
Good times
Creative Commons' Glenn Otis Brown relates a hilarious scene from South by Southwest: Grandmaster Flash cut the music and prepared the crowd for some call-and-response. It was old-school audience participation time. He'd play a hook, then cut the music, and...
March 24, 2004
Banned Music
Downhill Battle, the folks who brought you Grey Tuesday, are launching bannedmusic.org today. Bannedmusic.org is a peer-to-peer collaboration that makes it impossible for the major record labels to ban or censor musical works. When record labels send legal threats to...
March 24, 2004
'Dollar' Bill Lockyer
I got to do a teeny bit of reporting today at LA.com, following up on Xeni Jardin's excellent Wired News scoop about the apparently cozy relationship between California's attorney general and the Motion Picture Association of America. I can't imagine...
March 15, 2004
Creative Commons "Get Creative!" contest winners announced
Creative Commons has chosen the winners of their "Get Creative!" contest. See them right here. The first-place winner, a punchy two-minute mix of ephemeral Prelinger Archives footage and motion graphics called "Building on the Past" by Justin Cone, is way...
March 01, 2004
Lessig on dangerous mice
The professor, whose new book is coming out March 25, has a characteristically insightful take on Grey Tuesday. He exposes the emptiness behind the record companies' assertions that when threatening copyright-infringement lawsuits they are simply protecting "artists rights." Lessig: Should...
February 25, 2004
The Bad Plus: 'Give'
The Bad Plus takes works written by others and treats them like its prison bitches, but somehow their interpretations get out to the public without legal trouble.
February 24, 2004
It's Larry Flynt Day, too
Just noticed over at Rotten that Grey Tuesday is occurring on the 16th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell. By a vote of 8-0, the justices decided on this day in 1988 that parody--even...
February 24, 2004
Happy Grey Tuesday!
Download "The Grey Album" by DJ Danger Mouse. Wired News: Grey Album Fans Protest Clampdown Negativland: Changing Copyright...
February 24, 2004
'The unlawful Grey Album'
It's not just "unauthorized"--no, that would be too accurate. DJ Danger Mouse's album is "unlawful." Like, oh, I don't know, a sawed-off shotgun or a vat of crystal meth. "Unlawful." Not just the distribution. Not just any commercial exploitation. Danger...
February 23, 2004
Grey Tuesday is tomorrow
Tomorrow is Grey Tuesday. Hundreds of websites, including this one, will be turning grey, and many, as this one already does, will offer DJ Danger Mouse's banned "Grey Album" as an MP3 download. (Summary and links here.) Naturally, EMI Music...
February 23, 2004
Danger Mouse speaks
"I had to tell myself, right from the jump, 'Do not even have discussions with anybody about the legal ramifications of it. Don't think about it,' 'cause it would drive me nuts. I wanted to do this project and if I thought that kind of thing while I was doing it, it would have driven me crazy."
February 22, 2004
Grey Tuesday is tomorrow
Mark your calendar: "Grey Tuesday" Civil Disobedience Planned February 24th Against Copyright Cartel DOWNHILL BATTLE (February 18, 2004) -- A coalition of websites will join in an online protest to offer free downloads of a critically acclaimed album that is...
February 19, 2004
Download "The Grey Album" by DJ Danger Mouse
Fortunately, since Grey Tuesday happened the album is a lot easier to find. Here's what Illegal Art recommends:
February 17, 2004
iTunes/Pepsi critique in the Register
Andrew Orlowski writes up "We Will Bury Them With Their Own Confusion" in the Register, complete with quotes from the comments thread. Guess who said this one? Apple's products have had a huge, and positive, influence on my life. That's...
February 17, 2004
Filmmaking as catharsis
Director Greg Hittelman just let me know about a Philadelphia Weekly article on his film Willful Infringement. It's a good film, and a good story behind the making of it. After spending four years dealing with Disney's suit for $110...
February 12, 2004
Respect bootleggers
My pal and the co-founder of Slamdance, Dan Mirvish, gets some pixels at Wired News today for his site Respect Bootleggers....
February 09, 2004
Me vs. the New York Times
The New York Times contacted me today about "Silence (remix) ©2004 BRIAN FLEMMING. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." I'm totally not kidding. The reporter, David F. Gallagher, is writing an article on the silent tracks sold at the iTunes Music Store and...
February 06, 2004
QUICKTIME VIDEO: James E. Saldana's "Fight Back!"
Filmmaker James E. Saldana spoofs the iTunes/Pepsi ad.
February 06, 2004
Silence (remix)
AUDIO DOWNLOAD. I remix all nine completely silent songs that Apple is selling at the iTunes Music Store.
February 06, 2004
Court to music industry: Watch your language
Dear Los Angeles Times, I know that uncritically adopting the biased and extreme language of the MPAA and other entertainment entities is really good for the whole not-shitting-where-your-sources-and-advertisers-sleep aspect of your existence. But according to the Official Rules of Pack...
February 05, 2004
RIAA chief Cary Sherman molests 14-year-old girl
Hey, I didn't say sexually. Just got an email from someone taking (slight) issue with my criticism of the use of the word "prosecuted" in the script that Pepsi and Apple wrote for the 14-year-old girl they used in the...
February 04, 2004
Free Cinema is coming, honest
I know I promised freecinema.org would launch in January, but unfortunately I created the whole site in iBlog, which broke on me all of a sudden and still isn't functioning. I just have bad luck with blog software. I'm working...
February 02, 2004
QUICKTIME MOVIE: iTunes-Pepsi ad remixed
A video "remix" of the Apple "1984" commercial and the recent iTunes/Pepsi ads.
February 01, 2004
Et tu, Apple?
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing...
January 31, 2004
Hello, MUDDA
Another shot across the bow: Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno to launch musicians' union By Tim Weber Rock legends Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno plan to launch on Monday a musicians' union to help artists stand their ground in the digital...
January 27, 2004
Wikipedia needs help
Looks like Wikipedia, the amazing free encyclopedia, is getting hit with the success tax. They're asking for donations. You can help them out here. (Via Lessig.)...
December 28, 2003
Kids Corner
Don't do this to your child. (Thanks, blogging.la.)...
December 18, 2003
Thoughts on the MPAA rating system
The Motion Picture Association of America is, by and large, a malignant force in our culture, truly an enemy of freedom. However one thing I think they do right is the rating system. It is popular among indie types to...
December 10, 2003
Copyright reform
Ampersand at Alas, A Blog, consistently has well thought-out opinions on a wide array of topics. Today, some compelling thoughts on "really radical copyright reform."...
December 09, 2003
Bombs, not camcorders!
The priorities of Los Angeles law enforcement are clearly in order. L.A. Times: Coming soon to a theater near you: Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton and Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, handcuffs at the ready for camcorder-wielding...
December 05, 2003
The Paula Carmicino sex video
Oh my God! A student filmmaker intends to shoot graphic sex! Also, the sun rose in the east this morning! Because NYU junior Paula Carmicino planned to become the 112,472nd film student to shoot naked people doin' it, New York...
December 04, 2003
"Respect Copyright" disrespects me
respect copyright, motion picture association of america, mpaa
November 17, 2003
Copyright out of control
A couple interesting legal articles on the Web. First, Nothing So Strange's lawyer, Ken Tabachnik, tips us off to a FindLaw article by Julie Tilden (pictured at left) that discusses the merits of Matt Drudge's claims against the HBO show...
November 14, 2003
Electronic Frontier Foundation "Take A Stand Against..."
Busy working on the "Nothing So Strange" DVD. But I have just enough time today to ask you to please go sign this petition. To The United States Congress: We are the customers and former customers of the member labels...
September 12, 2003
Fair and balanced, my ass
Siva Vaidhyanathan, one of the top minds in intellectual-property law, talks to Eric Alterman about Fox's lawsuit against Al Franken for using the term "fair and balanced" in the subtitle of his book: Eric, U.S. trademark law is so kooky...
August 13, 2003
Creative Commons features "Nothing So Strange"
Wow. Just a few weeks after free-culture hero Lawrence Lessig linked to this weblog, the Lessig-chaired Creative Commons names "Nothing So Strange" as its Featured Content of the Week: Featured Content of the Week: Nothing So Strange Movie This week's...
August 08, 2003
Respect Copyright
UPDATE 11-17-03: I never got a response from RespectCopyrights.org to this query. I guess this organization dedicated to copyright education doesn't believe in teaching the history of U.S. copyright law. Interesting. TO: respect@copyright.org FROM: vagrant@slumdance.com ------------------------------------------------- Dear RespectCopyrights.org, Thank you...
July 22, 2003
Open Source Footage Store redesign
Just had to do a redesign. I don't know what I was thinking with that ugly green thing. Forgive me. Please let me know what you think of the place. I've only tested it with Mac browsers, so any...
July 19, 2003
Open Source Film: The Open Source Footage Store
The big news in the "Nothing So Strange" newsletter is that the Open Source Footage Store is now open. And right now, before we make the official announcement and link to it from the main site, everything in the Open...
July 18, 2003
"Nothing So Strange" Newsletter
Here's a reprint of the "Nothing So Strange" newsletter that went out today. If you're not on the list, you can subscribe right here: ============================= "Nothing So Strange" Newsletter -- July 18, 2003 ============================= + SCREENINGS: New York premiere Monday,...
July 18, 2003
Control, control, control
Everybody wants control. Conversations with exhibitors go like this: ME: "I want to release 'Nothing So Strange' in theaters, on DVD and via Web download all on the same day." THEM: "We don't want to show your movie, then. You...
July 17, 2003
Metallica Sue Canadian Band over E, F Chords
It's funny 'cause it's (almost) true.... Metallica Sue Canadian Band over E, F Chords (UPDATE: Two people have written me so far expressing outrage at this lawsuit. Sorry that the above wasn't written clearly enough--the linked web page is a...
July 16, 2003
Open Source film
I just love telling people about how Nothing So Strange is an open source film. Just got off the phone with a Midwest exhibitor interested in showing it. Mentioned this in passing... ME: "The film itself is still protected by...
July 16, 2003
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