Word: millennium
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...United States Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), an ill-advised grab bag of heavy-handed measures responding to very real fears of Internet-enabled music and video piracy. Since its passage, the uses of the DMCA by music and movie publishers have borne out many of the worries expressed by its critics. And the problem is headed into your dorm room, as a recent episode here at Harvard drives home all too clearly...
...there," says Maruyama. "Perfect Blue was the first animated film that could honestly be called a full-fledged movie." Critics agreed; Perfect Blue garnered a handful of international awards, including the prize for Best Asian Film at Montreal's Fant-Asia Film Festival. And Kon's follow-up, Millennium Actress, a lyrical life story of a fictional movie star, so impressed U.S.-based DreamWorks that it bought the North American distribution rights and released it in theaters this fall. Says Ann Daly, head of DreamWorks' feature animation division: "When we showed Millennium Actress to our animation team, they were enthralled...
...work to a wider audience and raising the standards of prime-time TV in the process. "We're going to let him keep doing what he wants, and I think the audiences will eventually come to him," says Mad House president Maruyama. That may finally be about to happen. Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers made the release-date cutoff for this season's Oscars, and industry insiders are whispering that both films might be top contenders. That would bring Kon much deserved recognition and show that his brand of animation has a destiny beyond entertaining children. And Kon would never...
Students and others who have posted the memoranda on their websites have claimed they are protected under the “fair use” exemption of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed by Congress...
...Slater ’05. As someone who has for many years been attempting to induce the electronic voting machine vendors to provide a reasonable amount of integrity and accountability in their voting systems, I am horrified at Diebold Election Systems’ attempt to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to further their regressive practice of hiding behind copyrights in an industry whose products are fundamentally flawed by an almost complete absence of meaningful assurance that votes are entered and counted correctly—and whose proprietary software is intended to be protected from effective scrutiny. In these systems...