In a video interview with Roy Abramsohn, the actor who stars in the horror fantasy film “Escape From Tomorrow,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the actor discusses copyright material. Abramsohn plays a father going insane at Walt Disney World, and the movie is garnering attention because writer and director Randy Moore filmed on
A timeless video exists online showing a 93-yard punt return for a touchdown by the University of Michigan’s Desmond Howard in a 1991 game against Ohio State. In the end zone, Howard struck a pose similar to the Heisman Trophy, the award annually given to the most outstanding player in college football. Howard indeed went
Back in November, we wrote about a federal judge ordering Canadian video game developer Silcon Knights to recall and destroy all unsold copies of Too Human. This was the result of a nasty court battle beginning in 2007, and the judge also ordered all other games containing North Carolina-based Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 game engine be recalled
A music video exists for the 2010 song “Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza” by Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller. The track appeared on Miller’s mixtape K.I.D.S., which Rolling Stone said “became a breakout Internet hit for the then-rising rapper.” However, hip hop artist and producer Lord Finesse claimed that “Kool Aid” used beats from his own 1995
Shortly after Christmas, Sony Music released a compilation of Bob Dylan recordings that the New York Times reported “is bound to become one of his most collectible albums.” Sony produced only about 100 copies of “The 50th Anniversary Collection,” a four-CD set of previously unreleased studio outtakes and live recordings from 1962 and 1963. Copies
Sylvester Stallone directed, co-wrote and starred in “The Expendables,” a 2010 action movie that grossed over $100 million in the United States and more than $270 million worldwide. It led to 2012 sequel that earned even more money than the original, and a third “Expendables” film is currently in development. Corporate speechwriter Marcus Webb, however,
While the creators of the internet role-playing game (RPG) Tweeria describe their creation as a “lazy Twitter RPG,” its fans have been quite active as the game accumulated 14,000 registered users and garnered approximately 18,000 visits a day. However, the technology news and information website Ars Technica posted an interesting examination of Tweeria in December
“Girl on Fire” is the title track to an album of the same name released this year by Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. While the song was widely acclaimed, a November 25, 2012, post to the entertainment industry news website Showbiz411.com by founder and editor Roger Friedman noted that “like a lot of Keys’s songs, it
In a post to its “Policy by the Numbers” blog on December 11, 2012, Google Legal Director Fred Von Lohmann announced the company was providing information about how often it removes search results that link to material that allegedly infringes on copyrights. Whereas the internet search giant received 250,000 copyright removal requests per week when
In 1983, Hasbro began producing “My Little Pony” plastic toys that were primarily marketed to young girls. The original toy line ran for a dozen years, but as a video from the PBS biweekly Idea Channel web series notes, the 2010 fourth generation incarnation of the ponies led to a television program that appealed to
