Goodbuy Robert Goulet
As you may know, Actor – Singer Robert Goulet has passed.
Who’s Gone Crazy Here?
You may have heard that Musical Artist Prince has been on a mission to remove his copywritten music off of Social Networking Sites such as MySpace and YouTube. We learned this weekend of a case however in which a women named Stephanie Lenz received an email from YouTube telling her that the video she had on her YouTube account had been taken down due to copywrite infringement. The video featured her 18 month young baby boy playing and dancing to the Prince Song “Let’s Go Crazy.”
The “Crazy” thing about this is that the music is on in the background and the total running time for the video is about 29 seconds. The song can barely be heard but the name of the YouTube post “Lets Go Crazy” is certainly what caught the attention of Prince and the Universal Music Publishing Group who demanded the video be removed. According to ABC News, Ms Lenz was advised to refrain from further copywrite violations or she would have her account deleted. At the time the video was taken down she only had recieved about 28 views from mostly friends and family.
After transistioning from fear of the music group to anger, she contacted the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is suing the Music group citing abuse of the DMCA. YouTube restored the video after a filing with them from Ms Lenz. It was my belief in film school that music in the background of a scene could be legally heard, the DMCA may have changed all of that? we’ll have to wait and see how this one plays out.
Read the Full ABC News Story
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3777651&page=1
See the YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ
no more single-core
Intel will be phasing out single-CPU production…they plan to introduce dual-core Celeron processors targeted at the low price segment of $34-$59.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20071011171900.html
Comcast interferes with Net traffic
…The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests…
…uploads of complete files are blocked or delayed by the company, as indicated by AP tests.
Each PC gets a message invisible to the user that looks like it comes from the other computer, telling it to stop communicating. But neither message originated from the other computer — it comes from Comcast. If it were a telephone conversation, it would be like the operator breaking into the conversation, telling each talker in the voice of the other: “Sorry, I have to hang up. Good bye.”
Sprint has a New Toy in its stable and it looks AWESOME
We received word this morning from Sprint that they will have the latest HTC SmartPhone available November 4th, The HTC Touch!
The Touchscreen Wireless Phone device runs Windows Mobile 6 features a 3″ Touch screen and allows emailing, listening to music, watching over the air video and checking out on demand services from Sprint. As a part of the On Board Memory, user will find a 512MB MicroSD card which is upgradable to 4GB. A on board camera captures at 2.0 MP camera and can also capture video with the phone with up to 5X zoom. Users of the Bluetooth® will like the Stereo bluetooth capabilities and Voice-activated dialing.
The Phone is priced at $249 with a two year agreement from Sprint with a $100 mail in rebate.