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...last model would have the government administer the financial aspect of the file-sharing process. Using revenues from taxes on Internet service or mp3 players, the government would then pay artists for their work based on a complex formula that takes into account the number of times the song or movie is accessed...
...dogged by rumors that he bribed members of a prominent political party-rumors that he denies. Nor was that his first brush with accusations of financial impropriety. In 1999 Indian officials charged that he had violated the country's strict foreign-exchange rules when he sponsored a Benetton formula-one racing team in the mid-1990s. Those charges were dismissed in court, but they've left Mallya with the feeling that he's being persecuted by India's bureaucrats. "Being chairman of the UB Group counts for nothing in this country," Mallya complains...
...more than a year. Alongside lighthearted semispoof shows like Pink, GAY-TV carries movies (but no porn), music videos, celebrity-gossip shows and serious current-affairs programs, all designed to give homosexual audiences a familiar voice but also get straight viewers to tune in. It's an increasingly popular formula on both sides of the Atlantic. The runaway hit of American television is Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - a series in which style-challenged heterosexuals have their looks and lives overhauled by a squad of gay advisers. Starting this week, Queer Eye will...
...with any other medium, the vast majority of music videos produced is predictably derivative rubbish. A slew of directors have made a pretty penny from scanning Hype Williams blueprints, cutting and pasting the appropriate rapper, and reprinting the formula endlessly. Prime culprits are Little X and Chris Robinson, who crank out seemingly nonstop streams of product, developing greater intimacy with their fish-eye lenses than with the artists’ music. They have created a combined total of over 150 videos for the libidinous likes of Mystikal and R. Kelly, representing the industry’s rough equivalent of Danielle...
...have that formula, you’re going to beat a lot of teams...