Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be wroth your time...
Ukrainian Film Producer Who Fled Kyiv Fears She’ll Never Return Home: ‘Nobody Knows What’s Next’
www.thewrap.com: Darya Bassel, a Ukrainian film producer and a programmer with the country’s largest documentary film festival, fears she may have left her home in Kyiv for the last time after fleeing the city earlier on Thursday, hours after Russia invaded the country.
What’s Gender Got to Do With Acting Awards?
AMERICAN THEATRE?: Awards ceremonies are thorny, polarizing beasts. The very idea of giving out awards for art can seem like a direct contradiction of what art is meant to be. What is the value in singling out artists and their work? And why is it that performers are almost always singled out along the gender binary?
Broadway's 'Paradise Square' is a 'nightmare' behind the scenes
nypost.com: There’s trouble in “Paradise.” The cast of the new Broadway musical “Paradise Square” was instructed by their union, Actors Equity, not to show up to rehearsal on Monday, multiple sources told The Post. And it wasn’t so producer Garth Drabinsky could give his 40-strong ensemble some Presidents’ Day relaxation.
US Copyright Office Gets It Right (Again): AI-Generated Works Do Not Get A Copyright Monopoly
Techdirt: For years, throughout the entire monkey selfie lawsuit saga, we kept noting that the real reason a prestigious law firm like Irell & Manella filed such a patently bogus lawsuit was to position itself to be the go-to law firm to argue for AI-generated works deserving copyright. However, we've always argued that AI-generated works are (somewhat obviously) in the public domain, and get no copyright.
After controversy, change, Suzi Bass Awards to honor Atlanta theater again
ARTS ATL: Two years after a controversy-stirring choice to not announce nominees for the 2019-2020 theater season, the Suzi Bass Awards are back to their practice of adjudicating productions, albeit with new eligibility requirements. The decision by Suzi Awards leaders to step back and make internal adjustments, spurred in large part by a push for equity, created tension within the organization and caused several judges to resign.
No comments:
Post a Comment