Category: Intellectual Property
It's fun to sue the Y-O-U-T-U-B-E
Last week we had Prince going a bit mental over his internet rights – now it’s time for wedding party favourites The Village People to try and close down YouTube.
The ‘People’ have employed a man dressed like a lawyer…
Raging Prince out to get YouTube, eBay and The Pirate Bay!
Oh dear, let’s hope good old Prince doesn’t “pull a Metallica” and make the whole world hate him.
The musical legend, who makes most of his money selling music direct to fans online rather than through the traditional record label route, remember, is teaming up with web legal specialist …
Snap on some ultra-pixelated Stolen Jewels by Mike and Maaike
The “Stolen Jewels” collection from Mike and Maaike is literally a high-tech remix of stolen jewelry into an almost unrecognizably low-res form. First taking poor quality images of the jewelry from the web, the photos are pixelated and then printed on scored leather, so that it’s actually possible to pop out each individual “jewel”. Pieces are based on greats like the Hope Diamond Broach, the Golden Jubilee Diamond Broach, and the Great Chrysanthemum Necklace. [GT]
“Stolen Jewels” by Mike and Maaike [via Moco Loco]
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Regal Guest Response System: Tattle-tale device for movie goers
The Regal chain of cinemas has placed the Regal
Guest Response System in 114 of its theaters across the United States. It’s a paging device, given to a random member of the Regal Crown Club loyalty program, as they enter the theater (one device per showing). The device has four buttons: “Picture”, “Sound”, “Piracy”, and “Other Disturbance” which can be pressed so that a manager can be alerted in the event of an emergency. “Other Disturbance” is somewhat vague, though. I want a button to press that says “Movie sucks, I want my eight quid back”. [GT]
Regal Guest Response System (via SciFi Tech)
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As part of the Star Wars 30th anniversary celebration, dozens of underground artists have built art around a 1:1 replica of Darth Vader’s helmet. The results are on display as The Vader Project, in the Los Angeles Convention Center. The pieces will also be going on world tour and subsequently will be auctioned. [GT]
I'll show you if Greedo shot first: Lucas to post clips of Star Wars for fans to edit
As part of the 30th anniversary Star Wars celebration, George Lucas is posting about 250 clips from all six Star Wars films on the Star Wars website and allowing fans to edit them any way they wish. Fans must use an editing program from Eyespot Corp, which will make the editing process simpler by using basic dragging, clicking and pasting but will also monitor the clips to ensure they do not contain nudity , pornography “and the like”. Lucas seems to be doing this basically to try to control the wild powers of the internet, which are far too goofy and exuberant to be constrained by any kind of simple editing software. But it’s nice to see the kid try. [GT]
Make-It-Yourself ‘Star Wars: Lucasfilm Will Post Clips From Film Saga on the Web, Inviting Fans to Edit at Will (sic) [via CrunchGear]
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