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Other People’S Footage: Copyright And Fair Use Screens Saturday, Nov. 5 at 10:00am at Washington University’s West Campus Library as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. The film is the centerpiece of a master class on fair use and copyright. A panel discussion will follow the screening featuring Directors Diane Carson and Robert Johnson Jr. This is a Free event.

The theft of intellectual property is one of the most serious crimes of our time. Balancing this and equally important is the creation of new works contributing to a vigorous marketplace of ideas involving the analysis and repurposing of existing works. Because the delicate balance between these two considerations urgently needs investigation, Other People’S Footage: Copyright And Fair Use explores fair use as the critical issue it is for the majority of nonfiction filmmakers (as our interviews show) and for our community at large.

Other People’S Footage: Copyright And Fair Use Screens September 22nd at 7:30pm at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). A panel discussion will follow the screening featuring Directors Diane Carson and Robert Johnson Jr. along with Erika Cohn (Slu Law) and Sue Greenberg (Exec. Director of the Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts in St. Louis).

The theft of intellectual property is one of the most serious crimes of our time. Balancing this and equally important is the creation of new works contributing to a vigorous marketplace of ideas involving the analysis and repurposing of existing works. Because the delicate balance between these two considerations urgently needs investigation, Other People’S Footage: Copyright And Fair Use explores fair use as the critical issue it is for the majority of nonfiction filmmakers (as our interviews show) and for our community at large.

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A new Indiego campaign has been launched for a worthy new documentary project. Other People’S Footage: Copyright Vs Fair Use is produced and directed by Diane Carson and Robert Johnson Jr. The film has been shot, but funds are needed for post-production work. Other People’S Footage: Copyright Vs Fair Use probes the contentious and often misunderstood contemporary issue of authors claiming fair use when integrating into their own work selections from other individuals’ creations, including digital footage from fiction or nonfiction films and sampling of music. Other People’s Footage interrogates the arguments for and against fair use in light of copyright law and recent legislation, while vibrantly illustrates the topic through authoritative interviews and numerous examples for an issue that troubles both an informed public and artists alike.

The Other People’S Footage: Copyright Vs Fair Use site can be found Here

http://www.otherpeoplesfootage.com/

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It didn’t wholly blow the wind up our (find out why, by reading our review here) skirts, but its still a must buy, for all Jet li fans. Director Ching Siu-Tung’s action fantasy The Sorcerer and the White Snake is up for release on U.S DVD, via Magnet Releasing. Street Date: April 9, 2013. Synopsis: Young physician Xu Xian (Raymond Lam) falls in love with a beautiful woman when she saves him from drowning, but unbeknownst to him she is in fact Madame White Snake, a thousand-year-old snake demon (Shengyi Huang) appearing in the guise of a woman. Sorceress Fa Hai (Jet Li), realising White Snake's true identity, vows to destroy her in a bid to protect Xu Xian and save his soul - but she has underestimated the power of White Snake's love for Xu Xian. Bonus Features: Behind the Scenes with Jet Li: Fighting, Stunts & Laughs.

Jet Li fans, this is the cue to commence rejoicing.

His fantastical kung fu venture The Sorcerer and the White Snake (a.k.a. It’s Love or Madame White Snake) lands on home entertainment January 3, 2013! The movie is also slated for theatrical release February 8.

The Sorcerer And The White Snake will be available on VOD and iTunes January 3 and will open in theaters February 8, 2013.

Directed by Ching Siu-Tung (Naked Weapon), the movie follows a young herbalist (Raymond Lam of Highs and Lows) who falls in love with a beautiful woman (Dragon Squad star Huang Shengyi); who unbeknownst to him is only an incarnation of a legendary thousand-year-old white snake. Jet Li (The Expendables) plays the sorcerer who is in knowledge of this fact, and waves an epic-proportioned battle against the snake in order to redeem the herbalist’s soul.

Li has previously imported another Chinese title to Us theaters...

The Sorcerer and the White Snake, previously known as, It’s Love and Madame White Snake already premiered in China and most of Asia back in September last year and was shown out of competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

Directed by House of Flying Daggers fight choreographer Ching Siu-Tung a fantasy film based on an old Chinese legend starring Raymond Lam as ‘an herbalist who falls in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman (Shengyi Huang).’ Jet Li stars as a sorcerer who discovers her true identity and battles to save the scholar’s soul.

The trailer below has been cut slightly for American audiences and the White Snake will hit VOD on January 3rd and limited theaters on February 8th, 2013. Check out all the flying demon action.

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Synopsis:

One day, a young herbalist Xu Xian (Lam...

Perhaps a little late to the party, but North America is finally set to get a look at Ching Siu-Tung’s action fantasy (starring the man himself...Jet Li) Sorcerer And The White Snake, via Magnet Releasing. Snake is definitely not Mr Li’s best (find out why by reading our review) work, but still well worth a watch, and of course essential viewing if you’re a Jet fan. It will be available on VOD and iTunes January 3, and will open in theatres February 8, 2013. Synopsis: Young physician Xu Xian (Raymond Lam) falls in love with a beautiful woman when she saves him from drowning, but unbeknownst to him she is in fact Madame White Snake, a thousand-year-old snake demon (Shengyi Huang) appearing in the guise of a woman. Sorceress Fa Hai (Jet Li), realising White Snake's true identity, vows to destroy her in a bid to protect Xu Xian...

Don’t know how the hell we missed this, but then it doesn’t help that they changed its name, and it was released with more of a whimper….than a Bang. The Jet Li starring fantasy epic The Emperor and the White Snake has just dropped on UK DVD!? If old school wire-fu is your bag then don’t miss this one. Synopsis: Young physician Xu Xian (Raymond Lam) falls in love with a beautiful woman when she saves him from drowning, but unbeknownst to him she is in fact Madame White Snake, a thousand-year-old snake demon (Shengyi Huang) appearing in the guise of a woman. Sorceress Fa Hai (Jet Li), realising White Snake's true identity, vows to destroy her in a bid to protect Xu Xian and save his soul - but she has underestimated the power of White Snake's love for Xu Xian.

"An overzealous application of CGI is the figurative boa constrictor squeezing the life out of The Sorcerer and the White Snake, a silly, derivative supernatural-action extravaganza that would have been better at a fraction of its f/x budget," argues Justin Chang in Variety. "Overblown saga of shape-shifting demons, butt-kicking clerics and the perils of interspecies romance occasionally dazzles but finally frazzles with its relentless visual assault, embedding Jet Li and his capable castmates in one screensaver-ready fantasy backdrop after another."

"The story of a woman demon who falls in love with a mortal will ring bells for Westerners as a charming variant on Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid tale," suggests Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter, "though here the scaly mermaid is a huge, beautiful snake. With non-stop action to attract the lads, the tale is laced with enough overblown romanticism for ten chick flicks, yet chaste enough for children.

The Sorcerer and the White Snake, previously known as, It’s Love and Madame White Snake is the upcoming film directed by Ching Siu-tung and starring Jet Li. The film is based on the Chinese Legend of the White Snake and was shot in 3-D.

Director Ching began as an actor and martial arts instructor working in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. His father, Ching Gong, was a Shaw Brothers Studio director, and Ching Siu-tung had been trained in Peking opera as a child, and made his directorial debut in 1982 with the ground-breaking wuxia classic Duel to the Death. He’s widely regarded as one of the best choreographers in Hong Kong working on Tsui Hark 1987′s A Chinese Ghost Story, and other high-profile international successes like Shaolin Soccer, Hero, and House of Flying Daggers.

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Opera Boston announces the company's first commissioned work- the world premiere of Madame White Snake, a new opera based on a beloved ancient Chinese legend, by composer Zhou Long and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs. Co-commissioned with the Beijing Music Festival (Bmf), it is the first world premiere by the Bmf and an American company. Madame White Snake will have three performances (Feb. 26, 28, and March 2, 2010) at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston and two performances in Beijing in October 2010. Planning has begun to bring Madame White Snake to several Chinese cities following the Chinese premiere in Beijing; the proposed tour is the first by an American Opera Company in China since San Francisco's Western Opera Company in 1987. The education and outreach program of Madame White Snake is presented by State Street Corporation.

Madame White Snake is one of just four world premieres by U.S. opera companies in the 2009-10 season.