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The Business

Hollywood's Bump from the Economic Slump; Strike TV; Titles

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2008

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Do sky-high gas prices mean boffo box office? Plus, first there was the writers' strike and now there's strike TV. Plus, the Zen of making movie titles.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodessa Ackner, and this is The Business.

0:04.6

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes?

0:09.5

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at, but prepare yourself for the brakes.

0:13.8

Check it out.

0:14.5

This week on the business, do sky-high gas prices mean Bafo box office?

0:19.6

Plus, first there was the writer's strike, and now there's strike TV.

0:24.3

And the zen of making movie titles.

0:27.9

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

0:30.5

Go nowhere, it's the business from NPR.

0:33.1

Music Bad news for Internet pirates and their ill-gotten booty, mehartes.

0:51.0

Last week, a judge ruled that Google will have to turn over user information for every video

0:56.5

watched on YouTube to Viacom, which sued for a billion dollars over copyright violations

1:01.8

in March of last year.

1:04.0

Biacom hopes to show that the infringing material is more popular than user-created videos,

1:10.3

which could increase Google's liability in the case.

1:13.2

Speaking of copyright violations, it turns out that the new Disney Pixar movie star is a film pirate himself,

1:19.1

and we have the footage to prove it. As Canadian blogger Jesse Willis noted after watching Wally

1:25.0

last week, the lovable little robot is actually a hardened criminal,

1:29.8

at least as defined by Canadian copyright law.

1:33.5

Among his violations documented in the film, Wally records audio from his favorite movie,

1:38.6

Hello Dolly, onto his own digital video recorder.

1:41.3

He then watches pirated video and then even shares the music

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