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Movie Directors the Next Terrorism Threat

Director Mike Figgis spent longer at LAX airport than intended. He'd arrived in Los Angeles, along with half the acting and directing world, for what is known as 'pilot season', when the big studios try out new scripts, directors and actors in a two-week frenzy of auditions and career make-or-breaks. When Figgis was being grilled by airport immigration, he was asked the purpose of his visit. Unthinking and tired after a long flight, Mike replied: 'I'm here to shoot a pilot.' After five hours in an interrogation cell (yes, really), he finally made it into town.

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A Fair(y) Use Tale: Disney Characters Explain Copyright

"A Fair(y) Use Tale" mashes up all your Disney favorites to humorously and effectively explain copyright law. The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden, came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. And, well, the movie is damn sure creative, and certainly seems to take the boundaries of fair use about as far as they can go.

Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created the short film. He "is an assistant professor of Film Studies and English at Bucknell University. His research includes early cinema and digital imagery. He has also made several experimental films that imagine what academic research might look like as a product of electronic (rather than literary) culture."

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A third NYC store planned for Apple

During this afternoon's financial conference call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that a third Big Apple store is being planned. It's been suggested that this building at 401 West 14th Street will be the third store's location. At 52,000 square-feet, it would house one heck of a store.

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New York City Film piracy penalty is now a misdemeanor

With the summer blockbuster movie season just ahead, City Hall and the Motion Picture Association of America are warning that secretly videotaping films is now a misdemeanor in New York City.

Days before the highly anticipated "Spider-Man 3" opens across the United States, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a new law on Tuesday that upgrades film piracy from a violation with a $250 (euro183) fine to a misdemeanor that carries up to six months in jail and penalties of up to $5,000 (euro3,675). More than 40 percent of bootlegged films are recorded in New York City theaters, the MPAA says. The duplications are typically sold for mass reproduction or posted on the Internet, sometimes just hours after the movie has premiered.