Moritz Legal Information Blog: Copyright, Descendible Property, and ...

Copyright is property, the owner of which can transfer it by will. In other words, you could inherit the copyrights in the paintings of your great great uncle Van Gogh, even though Uncle Van Gogh may bequeath the actual paintings to Cousin Mildred. The rights can also be transferred to an entity, like a nonprofit or a corporation.

This can present problems (both legal and emotional) when the new copyright owner licenses the works in a way someone else (e.g., a family member) does not like. For example, if you authorize Company A to market their guns and cigarettes using Uncle Van Gogh's paintings, Cousin Mildred may be devastated, but there may not be much she can do about it.

Such are the issues with the estate of Anne Frank and her diary. For years, parties have been fighting over her legacy through copyright litigation and other legal disputes, and the issue has arisen again. For a brief history, check out the following stories:

To aid your artist-clients, check out Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers, & Artists.

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Please Don't Ruin Instagram With Crappy Videos

An Instagram photo carries a certain artificial heft to it. There's a sense of importance, or at least permanence, to the photos we post to these accounts that you don't get from tweets or even status updates on Facebook. Instagram isn't naturally this way; it's developed this weight because everything on Instagram is beautiful. And with the addition of video, we've got a wonderful opportunity to make the platform more interesting?but we have to be careful.

One of the great joys of Instagram until now has been the lazy scroll. Fire up the app, and just swipe and swipe and swipe and passively take it all in while the colors and shapes sail past your eyes. You pause every so often to like something or make a comment, but the pleasure is never interrupted. The problem of video was apparent when, immediately after getting video, people started posting videos of their desks (a phenomenon we also saw with Vine).

Video is a different medium than photography, and if we start taking videos on Instagram the way we have for YouTube, Snapchat, Vine, et al, our feeds will become polluted with crap. Because unlike those other services, there's already something in place that we like a lot.

Here are a few simple tips to keep the quality high.

Don't broadcast, curate

People have been posting videos to the Internet forever, and the last thing we need is just another place to post videos of your view out the window while you're driving down the highway or waiting in line at the post office. Instagram is everyone's prettiest corner of the internet, free from the clutter and noise of other areas, generally just more beautiful and thoughtful. When you go back to your Instagram history it should be a museum-grade gallery of awesome.

Which is easy to say! But the message, basically, is to treat videos with just as much scrutiny as you'd use for an image on Instagram.

15 seconds is, like, an Internet eternity

This is critical. Let's try to keep our videos concise. You don't need to use the full 15-seconds just because you can. It's tempting to just sit there and record and record. Think about the terse eloquence of gifs. Don't waste my time. You don't want someone to sit there for 15 seconds and then feel pissed off.

Only post things that can lick themselves

It's a well established fact that sunsets, food, and animals are the ideal subject matter for Instagram photos. This is not the case for video. If I'm deliberately watching a video on the Internet, there better be at least the possibility that whatever I'm looking will at some point be licking something else or licking itself. If not, I'm not interested in looking at for more than one frame. That means only take videos of pets. And maybe people. Possible exceptions for food items that are at risk of exploding, collapsing, or contain moving pieces.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/please-dont-ruin-instagram-with-crappy-videos-534457325

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Movie Review: Pandora's Promise Offers an Argument for a Nuclear ...

There?s a strange way that nuclear power is introduced in Robert Stone?s new documentary, Pandora?s Promise, presented through a series of interviews with hardline environmentalists who express their support of the energy source like Catholics confessing sins in a confessional. All of the subjects were once strong opponents of nuclear, because, as for most environmental activists, nuclear falls on a list of no-nos that mainstream environmentalism refuses to accept. The negatives are clear: the massive fallout after meltdowns and the problem of radioactive waste.

The positioning of the nuclear debate with the context of a penitential environmentalism limits the documentary?s potential audience. This feels like a movie for left-leaning advocates who may be suspicious of the handful of their colleagues who have over to the darkside of nuclear. To win these people over, Stone walks through the pros and cons ? and then tries to debunk the cons. The meltdowns aren?t?that bad, the documentary argues. Radiation is actually everywhere, it goes on to say, so why are we worried? And Nuclear energy has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. The connection was just some fearmongering that dates back to the 1950s ? and was funded by big, bad oil companies.

Like most films of this ilk, Pandora?s Promise proves informative and frustrating. It was interesting to learn that the dirty water-based reactors that have melted down and produce lots of waste proliferated because of a misdirected marketing scheme, and that there is now technology to produce much cleaner reactors that reuse their waste. Less convincing were the Geiger counter glamour shots, a hand and a yellow meter that pops up at locations around the world, showing that radioactive readings at Chenobyl are on par with the radioactive sand on some Brazilian beach. Maybe so, but I?ll risk being called a deluded product of anti-nuclear marketing before I take a Euro trip to the site of the Ukrainian nuclear disaster.

That said, Pandora?s Promise raises some pertinent objections to the conventional environmental ideology, and like another fringe environmentalist film Cool It by the controversial Bjorn Lomborg, it presents a solution to global warming that is unpopular with traditional environmental platforms and ?yet could actually have an effect on energy consumption that comes close to the scale of the climate problem (unlike, say, solar or wind power). For that, Pandora?s Promise should be heard. But for the same reasons, like Cool It, it will likely be ignored.

Source: http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2013/06/movie-review-pandoras-promise-offers-an-argument-for-a-nuclear-future/

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Get Cash Loans: How to Finance Your Next Car With No Money ...

Financing a car usually requires a substantial down payment - sometimes as much as twenty percent of the total purchase price of the car. Most people do not have the means to come up with such a significant amount of money at one time, and may even have bad credit. There are lenders, however, who specialize in bad credit car loan financing - and can put you behind the wheel of your car now.

Lenders Who Want Your Business

Bad credit borrowers of automobile loans are typically rejected by many lending institutions and credit unions. But there is a growing number of lenders who have decided to specialize in bad credit automobile financing because these lenders recognize that any car loan has collateral attached to it - the car itself. This means that your bad credit automobile loan servicer can place a lien against your car until its paid for, which in a sense, guarantees their payment or return of the car. These lenders know they cannot lose by loaning you money to buy your next car, regardless of your credit.

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Your bad credit automobile loan can be either secured or unsecured. The secured bad credit automobile loan is secured by a lien that you allow the lender to place on an item of value - such as your home. The lien will be released once you have repaid the lender in full. The unsecured bad credit automobile loan has no collateral associated with it, and is a bit harder to get. The lender is relying on your personal credibility to be repaid. In either instance, the lender will become a lien holder on the car title, and the lien will not be removed until you have completely paid the car or other vehicle off.

When dealing with your bad credit auto loan servicer, never agree to make a monthly payment amount that you cannot reasonably afford. This will only result in late payments and worsening your credit score. Be honest with your lender and let them know other financial commitments that you have - they will work with you to come up with terms that suit your budget.

These lenders specialize in helping borrowers just like you. Once you are paying on your bad credit automobile loan, be certain to inform the lender if something comes up and you are going to be late with a payment. Oftentimes, lenders will work with you to keep the loan current by putting the payment at the end of the term of repayment. This will cost extra interest, but will keep you from doing more damage to your credit.

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