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'Hollywood Accounting' Losing In The Courts

Not surprisingly, your average juror is having trouble coming to grips with the idea that a movie or television show can bring in hundreds of millions and still “lose” money. This week, the big case involved a TV show, rather than a movie, with the famed gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire suddenly becoming “Who Wants To Hide Millions In Profits.” A jury found the whole “Hollywood Accounting” discussion preposterous and awarded Celador $270 million in damages from Disney, after the jury believed that Disney used these kinds of tricks to cook the books and avoid having to pay Celador over the gameshow, as per their agreement.

Looks like the times are finally catching up to the entertainment industry. These types of tricks cant be pulled forever, and at some point the house of cards will most definitely come falling down.

ASCAP Claiming That Creative Commons Must Be Stopped; Apparently They Don't Actually Believe In Artist Freedom

But ASCAP’s blatant attack on Creative Commons (and EFF and PK; both of whom focus on consumer rights, but not undermining artist’s rights at all) shows their true colors. They’re not about artists’ rights at all. They’re about greater protectionism — which is not (at all) the same thing.

Is anyone really all that surprised at anything the copyright cartel does these days?

Google and Viacom blend high-profile copyright suits with extreme profanity, as nature intended

And profanity.

Lucky for me, Google and Viacom have provided both today, in the form of a series of emails released through the discovery…