folder_open iconSita Sings the Blues on the big screen in New York City!

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Posted by Bryan Andrews | Posted in: Syndicated Articles | Comments(0) December 2009

pa href=http://www.ifccenter.com/films/sita-sings-the-blues/img class=node-image border=0 src=/cm/images/sita-drops-jewelry-350x177.jpg alt=Sita Sings the Blues //a/p p style=font-size: 133%; font-weight: bold;emSita Sings the Blues/em will have a week-long run in New York City's a href=http://www.ifccenter.com/films/sita-sings-the-blues/IFC Film Center/a, December 25thnbsp;ndash;nbsp;31st!/p p style=font-weight: bold;This is a full theatrical run, with 7-8 screenings a day. The filmmaker, Nina Paley (who is now a href=/who#artist-in-residence Artist-in-Residence/a at QuestionCopyright.org), will be doing Qamp;A after the 8:25pm shows most nights. On Monday, Dec. 28th, the conversation will be about the film's a href=http://sitasingstheblues.com/ free distribution model/a and the free culture movement./p p style=clear: both;Tickets are available a href=http://www.ifccenter.com/films/sita-sings-the-blues/online/a. Here's a show schedule (click on the time to purchase tickets for that show):/p ul listrongFri, Dec 25 at:/strong a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/25/200911:00 AM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/25/200912:35 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/25/20092:30 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/25/20094:30 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/25/20096:25 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/25/20098:25 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets 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href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/27/20096:25 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/27/20098:25 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/27/200910:20 PM/a/li listrongMon, Dec 28 at:/strong a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/28/200911:00 AM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/28/200912:35 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/28/20092:30 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/28/20094:30 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/28/20096:25 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/28/20098:25 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/28/200910:20 PM/a/li listrongTue, Dec 29 at:/strong a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/29/200911:00 AM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/29/200912:35 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/29/20092:30 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/29/20094:30 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/29/20096:25 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/29/20098:25 PM/a, a title=Buy Tickets href=http://movietickets.com/pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9598amp;movie_id=57907amp;rdate=12/29/200910:20 PM/a/li /ul pIFC Film Center has beautiful screens and is located at a href=http://www.ifccenter.com/about/#map323 Sixth Avenue/a at West Third Street in the West Village, right at the a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fourth_Street_%E2%80%93_Washington_Square_%28New_York_City_Subway%29 W. 4th St. subway station/a (A, C, E, B, D, F, amp; V subway lines)./p pemSita Sings the Blues/em is a terrific film; it won a href=http://sitasingstheblues.com/awards.html all those awards/a for a reason. Please tell all your New York friendsnbsp;mdash;nbsp;let's pack the house!/p pcentera href=http://www.ifccenter.com/films/sita-sings-the-blues/ img src=/cm/images/sita-goddess-poster-cropped-250x140.jpg alt=Sita Sings the Blues //a/center/p pa href=http://questioncopyright.org/sita_sings_the_blues_at_ifc target=_blankread more/a/p
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folder_open iconRedefining Property: Lessons from American History

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Posted by ninapaley | Posted in: Syndicated Articles | Comments(0) December 2009

pcenterbr / table cellspacing=5% cellpadding=25% border=0 tr td align=center valign=bottomimg src=/cm/images/valenti-248x333.jpg alt=Jack Valenti, former head of the MPAA //td td align=center valign=bottomimg src=/cm/images/elliott-248x333.jpg alt=E. N. Elliott //td /tr tr td valign=top p style=font-size: 85%;emJack Valenti: 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./emnbsp;a href=#troubling-assault style=text-decoration: none[1]/a/p /td td valign=top p style=font-size: 85%;emE. N. Elliott: (W)itness...the existence of the 'underground railroad,' and of a party in the North organized for the express purpose of robbing the citizens of the Southern States of their property..../emnbsp;a href=#cotton-is-king style=text-decoration: none[2]/a/p /td /tr /table p/p/center/p pWhy do discussions of Free Culture trigger such strong emotional response?/p pI think it's because people hold very strongly to ideas about what is property. Jill Lepore, in a New Yorker Article called a href=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/30/091130fa_fact_lepore The Politics of Death/a (Nov. 30, 2009, p. 62) writes:/p blockquotepemlife, liberty, and property are the rights that Americans talk about, and fight over....Taking a long view of American history, it's possible to argue that each of these rights has led to a fracture in the body politic, a dispute in which there seemed no room for compromise. ...a swirl of disputed ideas have gathered around each of these contested rights. But, from one era to the next, the ideas have been different./em/p /blockquote pLepore's article concerns itself primarily with life politics: ...in the past half century, Americans have been fighting over the right to life. But immediately prior to that statement lies this rich, enlightening paragraph about historic changes in Americans' ideas about strongproperty/strong:/p pa href=http://questioncopyright.org/redefining_property target=_blankread more/a/p
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folder_open iconMinute Meme #1: Copying Is Not Theft

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Posted by ninapaley | Posted in: Syndicated Articles | Comments(0) December 2009

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