There was no lawsuit. Where did you hear there was?
Most people come to the film due to word-of-mouth - someone likes it, they tell their friends to see it. I'm still shocked by how many fans of the film have no idea there was any copyright issue at all. Many don't even know it's Free; they see it at a festival or cinema, or on Channel 13 (NY PBS).
Sita Sings the Blues was online and Free nine months before its theatrical runs in New York and LA (and elsewhere). It was scheduled for a one week run at the IFC Film Center in New York, which got extended to 5 weeks by popular demand. It still screens there from time to time. It continues its art house circulation in smaller cities and towns. All with no advertising, only word-of-mouth.
Happily, nothing has to appeal globally any more. In a gatekeeper system, one "no" kills a project. On the Internet, the "no"s don't matter; the only thing that matters are the ones who say "yes." They're out there, even for the weirdest things.
I feel better about my aversion to having interns or employees. I like keeping my operations small. Some would call that "self-sabotage" or "low self-esteem" or "needing to control everything," but I think it's really because I don't want to lose my freaking mind, the way so many directors in my career past seemed to have lost their minds. Or maybe it's my soul I'm talking about.
Be sure to clearly state that you wrote, produced, directed, etc. The point here is to commit fraud against the audience, by falsely representing authorship. Normally people think the fraud of plagiarism harms authors, but the real harm is to the public, a.k.a. the audience. See how kindly the audience - on whom you depend for sales - treats you when you overtly set out to harm them.
If you write a book, can I scratch out your name, put my own on it, and then sell it to the world?
Go for it. Here's my Free movie Sita Sings the Blues. Please copy it - at any resolution! Archive.org offers a 200 GB uncompressed version suitable for making a new 35mm film negative. Scratch my name out and put yours on instead. That would normally violate the CC-BY-SA license on it, but for you, average_joe, I hereby grant an exception. Go ahead. Cross out my name and put yours on. Now sell copies that way. See what happens. Then come back and tell us how it works out.
"Jazz music was offensive to Nazi ideology because it was often performed by Blacks and a number of Jewish musicians. They called it "Negro music" or "degenerate music"—coined in parallel to "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art).[1] Moreover, song texts defied Nazi ideology, going as far as to promote sexual permissiveness or free love.[1] Despite this, not all jazz was forbidden in Germany at the time.[3]" link
Maybe we should invent DCM (Digital Cash Management) where the person paying controls how the recipient can use or invest the cash once they're paid. Wouldn't that be a fair exchange for a DRM-laden product?
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On the post: Freakonomics Flips The Window: Releasing Movie Online Before In Theaters
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Most people come to the film due to word-of-mouth - someone likes it, they tell their friends to see it. I'm still shocked by how many fans of the film have no idea there was any copyright issue at all. Many don't even know it's Free; they see it at a festival or cinema, or on Channel 13 (NY PBS).
On the post: Freakonomics Flips The Window: Releasing Movie Online Before In Theaters
Worked for me
It works.
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On the post: It's Official: People In Power Act As If They Have Brain Damage
whew
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Trademark Bolsheviks!
On the post: More And More People Seeing How Collection Societies Have Distorted Copyright
Free as in Free Markets
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In the words of George Carlin,
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Why Does The Press Still Blindly Believe 'Studies' Put Out By The Entertainment Industry?
On the post: Composer Jason Robert Brown Still Standing By His Position That Kids Sharing His Music Are Immoral
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On the post: Composer Jason Robert Brown Still Standing By His Position That Kids Sharing His Music Are Immoral
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Go for it. Here's my Free movie Sita Sings the Blues. Please copy it - at any resolution! Archive.org offers a 200 GB uncompressed version suitable for making a new 35mm film negative. Scratch my name out and put yours on instead. That would normally violate the CC-BY-SA license on it, but for you, average_joe, I hereby grant an exception. Go ahead. Cross out my name and put yours on. Now sell copies that way. See what happens. Then come back and tell us how it works out.
On the post: Composer Jason Robert Brown Still Standing By His Position That Kids Sharing His Music Are Immoral
Re: The death rattle of the buggy whip.
Amen, brother.
On the post: The EULA Menace
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http://www.archive.org/details/EffanAnimatedThankYouFromEffAndNinaPaley
Please torrent away!
On the post: The EULA Menace
Re: Can a brutha get a link?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W04LFvH1K8Y&feature=player_embedded
The EFF page:
https://w2.eff.org/ninapaley/
The "share" page to embed the ogg cartoon on html sites:
https://w2.eff.org/ninapaley/share.php
Thank you for sharing!
On the post: Oh No! Run And Hide! Kids Getting High With MP3s! Moral Panic! Moral Panic!
degenerate jungle beats
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senility?
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Re: from the fo-shizzle-my-copyrizzle dept
On the post: Teenager And Composer Argue Over File Sharing
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Beautiful. Yes.
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