Freedom's new fight.(Free Culture: How Big media Uses technology And The Law To Lock Down Culture And Control Creativity)(Book Review)

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IN THE MID-1990s, ALEX ALBEN PIOneered a new Hollywood genre: a DVD retrospective on an actor's career, structured around contemporary interviews with the actor but including clips from each film in his career. Alben's first subject was Clint Eastwood, who had made more than 50 films as an actor or director. In the end, the DVD was a Success, but there was a hitch. In assembling the clips, Alben needed to get permission ...

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