Signs of Life 2008: Best Music
Leona Naess - "All is Fair"
the everybodyfields - "Worth Keeping"
Life, Camera, Action: Movie Hopping While Rome burns
Live at Paste: Whitley
This is special. The mayor of a Turkish town called Batman said he will explore legal options to sue Christopher Nolan, director The Dark Knight and Batman Begins, for using the town's name.
Director M. Night Shyamalan has been accused of pilfering plotlines several times in his career: Signs supposedly stole from a script for Lord of the Barrens: The Jersey Devil and The Village followed a shockingly close track to Margaret Peteson Haddix's children's novel Running Out Of Time.
The struggle to get the massively hyped superhero flick Watchmen into theaters now officially has a court date: Jan. 6. The news comes just a few days after the The New York Times reported the lawsuit between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. over the rights to distribute the already-in-the-can film might cause it to be delayed a year into 2010.
Warner Bros., owners of the Harry Potter franchise, have confirmed that they are indeed suing the makers of an Indian film called Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors about a young boy trying to protect a secret formula created by his father from a couple of criminals.
Note to aspiring politicians everywhere: don’t use Jackson Browne’s songs in your political advertising without asking.
The Southern style of the Allman Brothers Band takes many people back to a simpler time. One where Mama made Sunday dinners, people gathered on the front porch instead of around the television and any dispute that couldn't be settled by the sheriff was taken care of with a shotgun.
Ladies and gentlemen, the latest round of Celebrity Copyright Infringement Litigation is under way. In this corner, The Black Crowes, defending their 1991 hit “Jealous Again.” And in this corner, country songstress Gretchen Wilson, defending her song “Work Hard, Play Harder.”
So, who's more gangsta: the Rolling Stones or Lil Wayne? Before you answer, consider the cinematic drug busts, the pacesetting debauchery, and the career-negating legal pimp slaps that the Stones and their handlers have laid down over the years. As Mick Jagger once sang, "Don't play with me, 'cos you're playing with fire."
Devo wasn't making idle threats: When a problem comes along, those Akron, Ohio dudes whip it. If you bought a happy meal from McDonald's in April, you might have noticed that one of the American Idol-themed toys, "New Wave Nigel," bears a striking resemblance to a certain iconic synth-pop act. Well, the members of Devo noticed too. They're mad as hell, and not gonna take it anymore.
Here's the worst pitfall of hip-hop producing—creatively re-purposing intellectual property always carries the risk of a fat ol' lawsuit from a sampled musician. In the latest case of rap sample litigation, it's the estate of a dead musician claiming punitive damages for sampling without permission.
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Episode 70
August 19, 2008
