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The Anti-Bullying Movement: What's Next

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Lee Hirsch Bully, Rep Mike Honda, Mpaa Ratings, Education, Cyberbullying, Bully, Bullying, Mpaa, Lee Hirsch, Teachers, Anti-Gay Bullying, Parents News
Rep. Mike Honda

The American Dream is first ignited in the classroom, and bullying is a clear and present danger to our nation's safety, spirit and competitiveness. Each educator and campus leader has a key role to play in the national mission to create a safe environment for each child.

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Google Network Shows Hollywood Trap: Between Fiddlers and Franklin

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Mpaa, Google, Chris Dodd, Jack Valenti, Internet, High Speed Internet, Google Fiber, Motion Picture Association of America, Technology News
Art Brodsky

The entertainment industry should no longer fear technological change. It should no longer cling to a precarious balance on the roof of an industrial structure constructed long ago. It's time to look on technology as an opportunity, and to conquer its fear of the unknown.

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Meet The 92-Year-Old Man Who Pirates Movies For The Troops

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Hyman Strachman Movie Piracy, Movie Piracy, Video, Mpaa, Hyman Strachman Bootlegger, Slideexpand, Hyman Strachman, Entertainment News

Hyman Strachman -- a movie bootlegger who has ripped everything from "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" to "The Artist" -- would be the scourge of Holl...

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MPAA Chief: Hollywood Must Befriend Silicon Valley

AP | CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 04.25.2012

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chris Dodd, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said Tuesday that Hollywood and Silicon Valley must work togethe...

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Key Anti-Piracy Bill Backer: SOPA Is 'Dead'

Bloomberg | Eric Engleman | Posted 04.12.2012

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Hollywood-backed legislation to fight online piracy, shelved this year after an Internet protest led by Google Inc. (GOOG) and Wikipedia, is "dead," s...

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'Bully' Wins The Fight, Gets PG-13 Rating

The Washington Post | Posted 04.05.2012

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LOS ANGELES — The Weinstein Co. says the rating for the documentary “Bully” has been lowered from R to PG-13. The company announced Thursday ...

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Parents, Don't Let the MPAA 'Bully' You

Jim Steyer | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Parenting, Mpaa, Bully, Kids, Movie Ratings, Common Sense Media, Mpaa Ratings, Bully Movie, Bully Rating, Entertainment News
Jim Steyer

There is no question that Bully is a difficult film to watch. The rub is that the MPAA's R-rating can act like a scarlet letter, basically preventing most parents from even considering this movie -- or any movie -- for younger teens.

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Foreign Markets and the Big Screen

Chris Dodd | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: India, Jobs, Mpaa, China, Hollywood, Movie Industry, Global Economy, Movie Business, Movies, Entertainment News
Chris Dodd

The motion picture industry, like all major American job creators, is part of a growing and interconnected world economy. But it might be surprising how important foreign movie theater audiences are to the millions of Americans who depend on the motion picture industry for their jobs.

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Review: The Importance of Bully

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.27.2012

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Marshall Fine

Lee Hirsch's Bully can't help but move you. It's an important and powerful film, one that should be required viewing for kids of any age -- and their parents.

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A Solution to the Bully R-Rating Controversy: Let It Go Viral

Chris Krapek | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: The Weinstein Company, Kony 2012, Mpaa, Bully Movie Rating, Cyberbullying, Bully Movie, Chicago News, The Hunger Games, Trayvon Martin, Chicago News
Chris Krapek

To curb this controversy and really, truly bring awareness to the anti-bullying movement, The Weinstein Company should release Bully directly to online platforms, free of charge.

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UPDATE: Ellen Joins The Fight For 'Bully' Documentary

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.08.2012

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17-year-old Katy Butler knows what it feels like to be bullied. When she came out as a lesbian in middle school, the bullying got so bad that she ende...

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Gary Susman

Weinstein Company Loses Appeal Over R-Rated 'Bully'

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: The Weinstein Company, Mpaa Ratings, Video, Harvey Weinstein, Bully Movie, Bully, Bullying, Mpaa, Lee Hirsch, Alex Libby, Movie News, Entertainment News

Who's the bully in this case -- movie mogul Harvey Weinstein or the MPAA ratings board? As expected, the MPAA turned down Weinstein's appeal over t...

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What Do Directors Think When People Make a Torrent for Their Movie?

Quora | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Bittorrent, Directors, Torrent, Directors Guild of America, Women Directors, Recording Industry Association of America, Peer to Peer Downloading, Heather Ferreira, Pipa, Mpaa, Sopa, File Sharing, Riaa, Motion Picture Association of America, Peer to Peer, Entertainment News
Quora

The Motion Picture Association of America has never written me a paycheck for anything. They're not backing my picture. These are not nice guys. They are not in this business to help filmmakers at all.

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Europe's ACTA Freak Out: How Hollywood Holds Back the Trade Agenda

Harold Feld | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Ustr, Sopa Protest, Free Trade Agreements, Sopa Pipa, Acta, Mpaa, Free Trade, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, US Trade Representative, Trade Agreements, Riaa, Sopa, Hollywood, Business News
Harold Feld

Whenever there is an international trade agreement negotiation, Hollywood jumps in, takes over, and starts driving the crazy train off a cliff by demanding all kinds of nonsense in the name of "stopping piracy."

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The MPAA Dinosaur and the SOPA Debacle

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.02.2012

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Hoyt Hilsman

Instead of trying to shut down popular websites and punish their opponents -- and their own customers -- Hollywood should take an entirely different approach to the digital revolution.

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Chelsea Handler Sex Jokes Cut From Film

Posted 01.27.2012

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Fox has agreed to edit out a few sex jokes from the upcoming action comedy "This Means War," according to The Hollywood Reporter, thereby earning the ...

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Thanks, Take Aways From Internet Revolution Over SOPA, PIPA

Edward J. Black | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Internet Freedom, Pipa, Piracy, Copyright, Sopa, Internet Censorship, Mpaa, Wyden, Lofgren, Hollywood, Issa, Politics News
Edward J. Black

The hundreds of thousand of calls to Congress and millions of petition signatures opposing two controversial bills, SOPA and PIPA, have been character...

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Piracy Shmiracy: We Need New 21st Century Business Models

John Tarnoff | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Media Business, Stop Online Piracy Act, Entertainment, Pipa, Online Piracy, Mpaa, Chris Dodd, Movies, Sopa, Media News
John Tarnoff

The MPAA and NATO are panicking because they don't know how to replace revenues lost not to piracy, but to newer commercial content platforms like Netflix or YouTube. This is a better explanation for the brinksmanship over the now-tabled SOPA/PIPA legislation.

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Crowdsourcing the Congress: Wikipedia's Blackout Bomb

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Mpaa, Pipa, Sopa, Riaa, Sopa Protest, Congress, Millennials, Sopa Blackout, Wikipedia Blackout, Technology News
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

It's time for Congressional leaders to use the learning experience of the SOPA/PIPA debate to throw off their generational blinders and find a way to concede power gracefully to a new generation with new ideas.

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Internet Clicks Beat Old Guard

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Google Sopa, Google, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Ip Act, Video, Piracy, Pipa, Mpaa, Sopa Blackout, Protect IP, Chris Dodd, Stop Online Piracy, Sopa and Pipa Bills, Sopa, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Outspent but hardly outgunned, online and high-tech companies triggered an avalanche of Internet clicks to force Congress to shelve...

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MegaUpload: le dossier accablant de la justice US

www.numerama.com | Posted 03.20.2012

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L'acte d'accusation à l'encontre de MegaUpload met à jour le système mis en place par son richissime fondateur pour encourager financièrement le p...

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Gerry Smith

Notorious Hackers Apparently Retaliate For Megaupload Takedown

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 01.20.2012

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The hacktivist group Anonymous launched its "largest attack ever" Thursday, claiming credit for a coordinated takedown of websites managed by the Depa...

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SOPA/PIPA Aftermath: Where We Go Next

Raven Brooks | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Mpaa, Chris Dodd, Blackout, Pipa, Al Franken, Sopa, Sopa Protest, Online Advocacy, Sopa Pipa, Sopa Blackout, Net Neutrality, Wikipedia Blackout, Politics News
Raven Brooks

It seems that SOPA and PIPA are dead in their current forms, but like zombies they'll be back under different names. I think there are a couple of lessons worth taking away from Wednesday's protest.

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SOPA and PIPA Bills Threaten Job Creation and Innovation

Brett Greene | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Congressional Bills, Internet, Congress, Senate, Television Studios, Movie Studios, Music Industry, Pipa, Sopa, Linkedin, Aol, Zynga, Paypal, Mpaa, Twitter, Discover, Facebook, Mozilla, American Express, Yahoo, Recording Industry Association of America, Visa, Opendns, Motion Picture Association of America, Etsy, Foursquare, Ebay, Wikimedia Foundation, Riaa, Google, Denver News
Brett Greene

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we've all come to expect.

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The Stop Online Piracy Act: Yet Another Stealth Maneuver to Control the Internet

John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Blackberry, Patriot Act, Internet, Digital-Millenium-Copyright-Act, Pipa, Mpaa, National Security Agency, Protect IP, Skype, Facebook, Riaa, Net Neutrality, Sopa, Technology News
John W. Whitehead

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons ...

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