Why should flexibility in Grand Rights negotiation necessarily result in poor quality productions.Such specious arguments suggest again that there are too many lawyers to feed here and that we are a long way from the composers.The next music publisher up at bat, Thomas Tietze of Bärehnheiter Germany points out that producers and publishers should not see one another as enemies but that open communication requires flexibility Czech composer Zbynek Mateju recounts that he had had problems with my own work…. The system must change from flat fees per country to a percentage of what the producer receives.Otherwise, Hungarian TV offers $1K for rebroadcast but since the music publisher wants $2K no sale can be made and it is impossible to get these works shown in smaller countries.In Dr. Moritz’s opinion, license fees are not the barrier now, but publishers’ fees.Chris Hunt head of Digital Classics in the UK sent in a written statement: of the thousands of hours of programming for which Digital Classics own the rights for there are hundreds of hours with Grand Rights attached.
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L’Intrus (The Outsider) is a relatively long film at just over two hours.Claire Denis came in and gave a lovely introduction to the film, telling us about how she had carte blanche after Beau Travail from Arte Television and decided to take full advantage of it to make a visual poem she had been working on for four years. That film was L’Intrus.
Leave a CommentThe world’s best cinemathèque – although not the biggest – is found here in Vienna. The variety and quality of its programming is unparalleled.
Leave a CommentMap & Graph: Countries by Crime: Prisoners: Per capita :A wonderful website for comparing countries. I don’t have much time to do an extended comparison now but some numbers just jumped out at me.First – the number of prisoners per capita.
2 CommentsThe US has more people in prison, no universal medical plan, lousyMore interesting to me is the difference in employment costs between Austria and France…. I know almost no one who is European employment costs:Chart 3 highlights a major challenge facing Europe over the next 20 to 40 years: the serious financing difficulties of “pay-as-you-go” systems and the possible resultant damage to the global competitiveness of European countries.Overall, the EU is approximately 15% dearer than the US. However, when only the original 15 EU member states are considered, the US is cheaper by approximately 23%.
4 CommentsWhat actually happens is no sales to us or the stores.)NARAS and RIAA are moaning about the little mom & pop stores being shoved out of business; no one worked harder to shove them out than our own industry, which greeted every new Tower or mega-music store with glee, and offered steep discounts to Target and WalMart et al for stocking CDs…. As an alternative to encrypting everything, and tying up money for years (potentially decades) fighting consumer suits demanding their first amendment rights be protected (which have always gone to the consumer, as witness the availability of blank and unencrypted VHS tapes and casettes), why not take a tip from book publishers and writers?
Leave a CommentI would suggest that passion and quickneFT.com / Arts & Weekend – Confessions of a leg man:Agnes de Mille, in her memoirs, Portrait Gallery, spoke of Markova’s feet and her ballet shoes lined with lambs wool: “Markova’s feet were flawless – white, supple, unmarked. Most dancers’ feet look like the ace of clubs, gnarled, jointed, skinned, bruised and blackened, with horny nails, and rubbings and scars.”At the age of 90, Markova’s feet were still beautiful, still tiny (size two) and still strong.
2 CommentsL’anglaise aux beaux yeux au Jardin des Plantes.Je vous ai dit que le Jardin des Plantes c’était un de mes répares preferés à Paris.
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