Did Congress 'Screw' Liberal Hollywood?
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The 108th Congress has been tough on the entertainment industry. Its broad legislative agenda aimed at protecting copyrights has so far failed to win approval, and its newly enacted tax loophole benefiting some of the studios has left some executives questioning the industry's leadership choices.
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Movie pirates who get caught recording a film in a theater just might end up walking the plank -- literally. The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act passed by the House of Representatives would make our love
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Exaggerated case used to push legislation A 2005 study by the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that illegal downloads from college students accounted for an enormous 44 per cent of the industry's domestic losses.â¦
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Back in 2005, the Motion Picture Association of America released a study that blamed 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses on college students illegally downloading movies. Now the Association admits its numbers were wrong.
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After winning control of Congress by capitalizing on Republican scandals, Democrats are unsure whether to crack down on a perk that got some lawmakers in trouble.
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Two Hollywood films that take up the politics of the Iraq war grew out of the conviction that the American public was not getting the full picture of the violence.
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WASHINGTON -- Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law, which they say would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the record companies and which Congress might try to
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Americans think Congress is doing a pretty lousy job, according to a poll released Friday.
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WASHINGTON -- Television networks are free to sprinkle their programs with shootings, slashings, torture and other gore because the government has no regulatory authority over violent programming. But a draft report being circulated at the Federal Communications Commission says Congress can change...
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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Even as they ponder their Oscar  votes, the wealthy stars of Hollywood's liberal establishment  are sizing up the choice between the Democratic Party's two  leading lights for president in 2008.
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By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 8--Robert Greenwald didn't intend to develop a new film-distribution system.   But as his career has turned from producing movies of the week to directing left-leaning documentaries, that has been the outcome.
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When William Fox, a self-described liberal from Crewe, England, found out he would be interning for a far-right, gun-toting, bear-hunting Republican congressman in Washington, he wanted to book the first flight ...
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Liberal West Hollywood is a city proud to proclaim its firsts: First to provide health insurance to gay and lesbian partners of city employees. First to publicly support for a woman's right to an abortion. Even the first to criminalize the declawing of cats.
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President Bush is going all the way to get amnesty for the phone companies who assisted the government in what appear to be illegal wiretaps of American citizens.  The Senate, even though it's controlled by Democrats, went with this nonsense (roll call). The House acted as a firewall, and voted for FISA renewal without amnesty. Good for them. Among the Presidential candidates, Obama voted against amnesty (thanks), McCain voted for, as did all other Republicans, and Clinton didn't vote, even though she was in DC and could have.
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Congress will have a narrow opportunity when it returns to pass legislation making it a crime to use video cameras to record films in movie theaters, but the bill could be floored by a fight over a federal boxing commission.
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WASHINGTON, DC / BRUSSELS, Belgium - 10/07/04 - Whatever meager goodwill was gained by the move yesterday - albeit tardy - by Congress to act on the contentious Foreign Sales Corporation - Extraterritorial Income Act (FSC-ETI) export tax mechanism has