" . . . we are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. And it is like a great tidal wave just off the shore. This video cassette recorder and the blank tape threaten profoundly the life-sustaining protection, I guess you would call it, on which copyright owners depend, on which film people depend, on which television people depend and it is called copyright." — Testimony of Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), at the Hearings on HOME RECORDING OF COPYRIGHTED WORKS before the Ninety-Seventh Congress of the United States, 1982

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Chicago Tribune - The two sides of John Woo. Herein lies the dichotomy of Woo: an artist who crafts frenzied action while listening to jazz ballads, an auteur and devout Christian who hates violence but is the master of its portrayal. [Ian's Messy Desk]

Boy Kisses Girl: That's Sweet, and Sensational!. The success of a movie entitled What's With Love? says more about Indonesia today than the kiss that caused a sensation. By Jane Perlez. [New York Times: Movies]

TV Producers Go Interactive With Chyron and Liberate: The combined solution will enable TV graphic professionals and producers to develop content with embedded triggers allowing, for example, real-time voting or betting, via the subscribers' remote control. [Chris Van Buskirk's ITV Weblog]

However The Reference To Pavlov Appears To Be Without Irony. Good article from INTA on the protection of sound marks. [The Trademark Blog]

Film Studio Where Dietrich Dazzled Seeks New Heyday. Sixty years after Marlene Dietrich, Billy Wilder and Fritz Lang, there is a buzz at Studio Babelsberg again. By Desmond Butler. [New York Times: Movies]