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Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater China
Shujen Wang
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Framing Piracy examines film distribution--legal and illegal--in the largest, mostly untapped market in the world: Greater China. Tracing networks of optical disc (VCD, DVD) and online piracy, this book tackles issues of politics, globalization, and technology. It features a wealth of original research, new distribution data, and interviews with film distributors, government officials, and film pirates. With changes afoot in China upon its entering the World Trade Organization, this timely book shows that such transformations have far-reaching implications for policy, theory, and practice.
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Piracy in the Motion Picture Industry
Kerry Segrave
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Film piracy began almost immediately after the birth of the film industry. Initially it was a within-the-industry phenomenon as studios stole from each other. As the industry grew and more money was involved, outsiders became more interested in piracy. Stolen material made its way offshore since detection was less likely. Hollywood's major film studios vigorously pursued pirates and had the situation fairly well under control by the middle 1970s—not eliminated but reduced to a low level—until videocassettes arrived.
This work begins with a discussion of some of the earliest cases of piracy in vaudeville, and then considers how the problem continued to grow caused by the lack of legal resource available to performers, and the ways film exhibitors cheated the film distributors and companies and the measures that the distributors and companies took to prevent piracy over the years. Also examined are the practices of American theater owners who tried to cheat Hollywood, especially through the practice known as bicycling—extra, unpaid for screenings of a legitimately held film—and altering paperwork to reduce the money owed to distributors on films screened on percentage contracts. Also examined, to a lesser degree, are Hollywood's own efforts to cheat, including the disregard of copyrights held by others.
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Excellant Resource.......2004-04-02
This book has been a source of virtually infinite information. I strongly recommend this to anyone researching this facinating subject.
A bit dry, though. I would not read this for strictly pleasure.
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Title: Conquering film piracy would be biggest blockbuster of all.
Author: Emily Bryson York
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Los Angeles Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 13, 2006
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DVD piracy in the U.S. becomes an industry.: An article from: Video Age International
Dom Serafini
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Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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Title: DVD piracy in the U.S. becomes an industry.
Author: Dom Serafini
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Video Age International (Magazine/Journal)
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Title: Finding the source of DVD piracy is elusive.(Battling the Future)(Digital Entertainment Group )
Author: Kathy Tracy
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Title: Hollywood's new guardian: can Jack Valenti's successor, Dan Glickman, lead the battle against piracy of movies?(PIRACY)
Author: Joshua Chaffin
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This digital document is an article from Plastics & Rubber Asia, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 710 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Just for the record: while there is no doubt that piracy in the music and movie industry is a problem in Asia, Thailand-based General Record International Industry addresses this issue head-on.(PROCESSOR REPORT)
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Faced with the challenge of distributing digital product in the digital realm, the American film industry is acutely aware of its increasing vulnerability to piracy and is currently considering two solutions to protect its copyrights-a legislative solution (e.g., the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998) and a technical solution (e.g., digital watermarking). We suggest that a better way of dealing with piracy is an economic solution, such as neutralizing piracy by reengineering the supply chain across all three sectors of the motion picture industry: distribution, exhibition, production. In distribution, the industry can make legitimate downloading of high-quality movie files easier and cheaper (than pirating) by strategically locating ''e-Blockbusters'' (i.e., digital movie libraries) at or near Internet service provider (ISP) sites and making them attractive through feasible pricing schemes. In exhibition, innovative digital theaters could offer virtual reality viewing experiences and flexible windowing systems that maximize revenue for each feature film. In production, work would be done primarily or entirely in the digital domain. Digital film reservoirs would provide universal naming and indexing functions for easy access, reuse, and extension, and the industry would achieve a new diversity of quality and quantity. In addition, dynamic cross-media convergence can be expected as a function of the complementarities created by content digitization. To prosper in the new digital economy, the motion picture industry must closely collaborate with the information industry to achieve a new supply chain rather than competing with it to the detriment of both.
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Title: System blocks unwanted video and still photography: camera neutralizing technology could halt movie piracy and clandestine photography.
Author: Gale Reference Team
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Title: Warner cancels advance screenings; Seeks tougher Canadian piracy law.(Movies - Articles)
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Lost and Found: A Musical Story Based on Luke 15/Leader/Accompanist Edition
Nylea Butler-Moore , and
Carol Krau
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One of the Living is a supplement for the All Flesh Must Be Eaten RPG. In it, you will find: New skills, qualities and drawbacks for those who survive, including some fresh metaphysics ideas and archetypes. Rules for scrounging and jerry-rigging in a post-apocalyptic world. A slew of new implements of survival. Suggestions for characters on how to use all the great new gear and abilities detailed. Guidelines for Zombie Masters for long-term Deadworld campaigning, including the psychological and technological effects of society's collapse . . . oh, and a bunch of cool new zombie Aspects. Details on a tiny community of survivors holed up in an isolated area. Eight new Deadworlds set many years after The Rise.
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Very Good Book.......2005-08-02
This book is excellent to play games with horror.
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Foreword by Lou Dobbs
One of the hottest, most controversial topics in the news is the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries. Outsourced jobs are extending well beyond the manufacturing sector to include white-collar professionals, particularly in information technology, financial services, and customer service. Outsourcing America reveals just how much outsourcing is taking place, what its impact is and will be, and what can be done about the loss of jobs.
More than an exposŽ, the book shows how outsourcing is part of the historical economic shifts toward globalism and free trade, and demonstrates the impact of outsourcing on individual lives and communities. The authors discuss policies that countries like India and China use to attract U.S. industries, and they offer frank recommendations that business and political leaders must consider in order to confront this snowballing crisis -- and bring more high-paying jobs back to the U.S.
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Excellent College Resource on "Outsourcing Jobs".......2006-08-04
I used this book as a resource for a paper I did on outsourcing. I found this book to be very informative and well formatted. The chapters have a logical flow and uncover many things about the short-term and long-term affects in this country as well as the countries the jobs are being outsourced to.
An anti-globalization book, rather than an anti-outsourcing book.......2006-06-30
I am currently reading this book. What the authors are trying to say is simple, don't outsource. They have tried their best to write a book of 200+ pages - with a vague story-line and lot of repetitions. The story-line of the book could have been better and they could have tried to avoid the repititions.
It seems more like an anti-globalization book rather than an anti-outsourcing book. Authors have used the theme of outsourcing to emphasize their anti-globalization ideas, I believe.
Ok, I am not pro- or anti-outsourcing. Just wanted to put my thoughts here.
If globalization is bad for America, it is bad for other countries too. Since the authors are referring to India everywhere, let me give you examples of effect of globalization in India.
India's protected market was liberalized. Due to this India saw sudden influx of foreign good (include very cheap Chinese products). Lot of home grown industries collapsed due to this. Indian car, tv, textile, etc. companies were not able to compete with cheap foreign products. Millions lost job. This account of India is not discussed anywhere at all. Ford is selling cars in India. Apple sells fancy iPods in India. You can see that it is very simple to understand the concept. Like American companies sell their products in India and other countries (cars, iPods, desktop/laptop computers, operating systems, super computers, beauty products, etc.), Indian companies are selling their services (IT, Finance, BPO, etc.) to US and other countries. I beleive that the same thing is happening in other developed or developing or under-developed countries.
If US is going to protect the market, won't every other country will follow suit? How will then the US companies sell their products in other countires?
Let me know your thoughts.
The theory of comparative advantage does not support absolute advantage(globalization).......2006-01-15
Hira and Hira(HH) have written a book that they state is aimed at the average American.HH appear to have decided that the basics of the theory of comparative advantage,at the level of Adam Smith and David Ricardo,are too difficult for the average American reader to grasp.Therefore,they decided to skip an explicit account of exactly what it was that Smith(or Ricardo)actually said.This is the major shortcoming of the book.Smith would completely reject any globalization argument for outsourcing because such an argument rests on absolute advantage and not comparative(relative)advantage.Absolute advantage violates the necessary condition that the outcomes from trading be Pareto optimal(some countries gain more than others gain from trade but no one loses)since some countries lose.Under absolute advantage you have a zero sum game.Let's look at what HH should have covered from The Wealth of Nations(1776,Book IV,Chapter II,pp.420-440,Modern Library edition),but did not,in their book."First, every individual endeavors to employ his capital as near home as he can,and consequently as much as he can in the support of domestic industry;provided always that he can thereby obtain the ordinary,or not a great deal less than the ordinary profits of stock"(Smith,p.421;see also p.422-423).Assume that the returns are far less than ordinary.The individual should relocate his business in the foreign country so that he can sell the output he produces to his FOREIGN CUSTOMERS.Importation of these goods back into the home market for sale violates the theory of comparative advantage , since the relocated firm now has absolute advantage.For instance,Toyota and Volkswagen build plants in America to supply Americans with cars.They do not send their products back to Japan and Germany for sale in their home market,a la WalMart.Second,a retaliatory tariff is "...good policy...when there is a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high duties or prohibitions..."imposed by another country.Only when"there is no probability that any such repeal can be procured..."would a retaliatory tariff be a" bad method"(Smith,p.435).Third,"...freedom of trade(free importation of foreign goods) should be restored only by slow gradations,and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection"(p.435).Fourth, "To expect...that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored... is as absurd as to expect that an ...Utopia should ever be established..." because "...the private interests of many individuals irresistibly oppose it".Fifth,Smith fully supports revenue tariffs to fund government(Smith,p.439;see pp.845-850 for some of the negative consequences.Smith imposed such duties when he became a Customs official.The economic policies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were built on Tariffs)operations such as providing universal general and religious education(Smith,pp.767-768).HH present a list of the negatives resulting from the rush to implement a "globalization" policy that has not been done in slow gradations with a great deal of circumspection and reserve.Smith would be appalled to discover economists claiming that globalization is based on the theory of comparative advantage or that such a theory has anything to do with The Wealth of Nations.HH should revise their book to explicitly cover what Smith,a moral and ethical conservative, actually said and not what some libertarian anarchist economist claims he said.
Disappointing - A Start, but Need More Information.......2005-12-29
University of California experts estimate that about one out of nine jobs are vulnerable to outsourcing, while others see half of jobs outsourced as paying over $31,700/year, and a total of $151 billion outsourced by 2015. Clearly a serious problem!
Some dismiss the problem, saying that this allows the U.S. to focus on higher-value R&D. However, that is patent nonsense - is everyone going to become a scientist? Regardless, China already is the #2 producer of scientific papers on nanotechnology - a key new area.
Others say "new jobs" will occur, but are vague as to where these jobs will be or come from. Others claim that "insourcing" largely offsets outsourcing - however, further examination shows that much of what they are counting simply represents foreign- firms' takover of former U.S. firms. An example is Daimler-Benz and its Chrysler takeover, another is Tyco moving its headquarters offshore to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
Reality is that the problem is likely create economies of scale advantages for foreign producers as they claim more and more of former U.S. production. In addition, some firms are sending design and production engineering overseas to be closer to the action. (Neither point was made in Hira and Hira's book.)
Another problem is "insourcing" via H-1B and L-1 guest-worker visas allowing eg. Indian citizens to come to live in the U.S. and take jobs away from Americans.
Correcting the problem will require changing U.S. laws that provide no penalty for offshoring and offer tax deferrments for doing so (taxes on profits made overseas can be deferred; many firms are trying to also get a "tax holiday" on these deferred taxes). It will also require lowering U.S. corporate tax rates - data shown in the book indicates that U.S. firm tax rates are about double that of most competitors. Still another requirement is tightening visa requirements that allow foreigners in to take our jobs. The first requirement, however, is that outsourcing be recognized as a problem - unfortunately, most politicians are still reading outdated Economic textbooks and think our economy is improved by outsourcing.
The book is a start, but we need more data and credible analyses from insightful economists. It also isn't clear whether the current data include manufacturing jobs already lost, or just new service jobs. Finally, the impact of illegal Mexicans also needs to be addressed in the same book.
Mixed Messages and Contradictory Business Advice.......2005-11-24
After attending a recent lecture by Dr Hira, I found his book and his ideas on US economic evolution incomplete and wavering. Unfortunately, its not information are not grounded or empirical based on US employment trends and globalization.
I recommend you keep looking for better volumes.
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Title: Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs.(Book Review)
Author: James H. Dulebohn
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Date: September 1, 2005
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