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março 17, 2009 - terça-feira

Drive Of Your Dreams Sweepstakes

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março 13, 2009 - sexta-feira

Speed Dreams- Trailer

Check our Newest Original Productions

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novembro 13, 2008 - quinta-feira

The Documentary Channel is giving away a FREE box set

The Documentary Channel is giving away a FREE box set loaded with 6 of our most popular documentaries. Want to win? Just email us your name, along with the name of your favorite Documentary Channel film and a brief explanation of why it's your favorite. If eligible, you will be immediately entered to win, and you may get the chance to see your favorite documentary on DOC New Years Eve!!!

Go here to enter = http://www.documentarychannel.com/BestOfDoc.html

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outubro 18, 2008 - sábado

If You’re In New York on Monday October 20th...A Time For Burning
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Please join The Documentary Channel & The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts & Sciences in this special screening of "A Time For Burning" on Monday, October 20th, 8:00 pm; @ The Academy Theater at Lighthouse International, 111 E.59th Street, NY, NY 10022. Doors open @ 7:00pm; Opening remarks @7:45 pm. Followed by an onstage discussion with producer-director William C. Jersey. For tickets or additional information, please call 1-888-778-7575. Only $5.00.

What would happen if the minister of an Omaha, Nebraska, Lutheran church with an all-white congregation were to challenge his parishioners to interact with a nearby black congregation? At the height of the civil rights movement, Lutheran Film Associates commissioned filmmaker William C. Jersey to record the sensitive and highly volatile discussion from both sides of the racial divide. This powerful documentary builds from a minister's idealistic notion to a dramatic, resonant conclusion.

Produced by William C. Jersey. Directed by William C. Jersey, Barbara Connell. Quest Productions; Pathé Contemporary Films. Black and white. 1967. 35mm. 58 minutes

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setembro 30, 2008 - terça-feira

If you’re in Nashville on Oct. 2nd join the The Documentary Channel....

*This Thurs, DOC is showing at the Belcourt (10/2 at 7pm Central), free of charge to the public, a feature length documentary we executive produced on TVA called "Built for the People," directed by Oscar nominated filmmakers Sean and Andrea Fine (they did the Oscar nominated feature film, "War Dance").

It's a big project, a very well done film by a local channel, about TVA which is a Tennessee effort created by Roosevelt, free to see, and we'd like as many people to see this terrific film as possible. Docs always struggle to find a voice, and this is a perfect example

Here's some more info on it: http://www.documentarychannel.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=401

http://www.builtforthepeople.com/

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setembro 13, 2008 - sábado

More on Copyrights
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All of this started with what to me is a dangerous trend: the cost of rights to create new documentaries and to see ones already created is becoming so burdensome, that we are creating a library of books that can't be read, and books that can't be made. Music docs, other than those blatantly promotional, are becoming almost impossible to make. Large corporations that own valuable footage useful -- even critical -- to historians and documentarians are holding back that footage for their own exclusive use. Or, they simply don't want to bother with "small" requests for usage that don't cross the $10,000 threshold of their attention.

It is usage that is always key to copyright. Is it referred to, is it used to create a new piece entirely, is it an organic reference, or is it layered on top? Does Fair Usage come into play?

This is not meant to be a primer on rights, but it is meant to be a forum where topics are introduced. - TLN

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setembro 12, 2008 - sexta-feira

On Copyrights
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Whatever it's called, the result is the same: copyright for a person extends from 50 to 70 years, and for a company from 75 to 120 years. Mickey Mouse remains safe, but the Brothers Grimm may have missed the boat: had they formed a company, they might have had a copyright infringement case against Disney.

Ditto Brahms, and many other musicians who wrote classical music that forms the repertoire of many orchestras, who may pay a sheet music fee for the text, but don't pay a dime to the estate of the composers.

All this is to say that while we are in an age with more access to more media that could be used to teach and improve, we are also in perhaps the most restrictive age ever in terms of being able to use that media.

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setembro 10, 2008 - quarta-feira

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As the Wikipedia points out, the first generally accepted date of modern copyright law is accepted as

England

's Statute of Anne (1710) which established the 28 year limit for ownership by an author. This is coupled with the general sense that copyright was not to be into perpetuity, and that the public benefited from material passing into the Public Domain at some time or another.

Copyright has changed over time from protecting the creator during his/her lifetime to providing a revenue source for subsequent generations: never was it designed to be a generational firewall, otherwise, Disney (who took stories from Perrault, Brothers Grimm, the "Arabian Nights" among others for his fairy tales) might never have given us Cinderella, Pinocchio, and many others. Disney filed, and won, an "extension" for his copyright of Mickey Mouse, courtesy of Sonny Bono with his Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act or the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998.

What is clear is that copyright law has stretched its hand far beyond the life of its creator, and I'm not sure that's so good. A generation of protection is one thing: 120 years are 2 or 3 generations. Copyright was not intended to be a trust fund. - TLN

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setembro 9, 2008 - terça-feira

Rights & Usage, Part 2
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Regarding rights and usage. Here's another factor.

Uniqueness.

Some media is indeed unique, and uniquely valuable. But this is rare, and often pertains to news (ie the Magruder Film). But is it right to hold the world hostage to potentially usurious rates for usage, especially on the part of news organizations, who are given unusually unrestricted access for public news? Is footage of the Challenger exploding really anyone's to own? Is the 9/11 footage someone's to claim? Someone may have had a camera pointing at the incident, but can they claim the underlying rights to that incident, or are these essentially PD (Public Domain) images that, once someone has them physically, one has the right to use as he/she wishes?

Access is one factor to uniqueness, but so is effort. That is, someone took the time, expense, and effort to record or film something. Is it not right that they have the opportunity to benefiting financially from having "spec'd" the cost of producing the footage? This is the very basis of capitalism.

So it's not a slam dunk for either argument. One has the right to exploit the fruits of their effort, yet there is some material that is public and perhaps should not be unreasonably withheld from general usage.- TLN

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