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The rights conveyed by a pre-sale discussed in Part 1 of this series typically include the theatrical and video release of a film. A release in the United States and Canada is considered “domestic.”
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What do a Kindle Fire, a Google Nexus 7, and a two-year old HTC Incredible have in common? They all run some version of Google’s popular Android mobile operating system, though you wouldn’t necessarily see the similarities immediately…
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Markus “Notch” Persson, owner of Swedish game developer Mojang, has attracted a lot of attention for his lo-fi but relentlessly addictive game Minecraft. Most has probably been welcome: glowing reviews from respected gaming outlets like Eurogamer, Giant Bomb, IGN, and, er, Conan O’Brien, “game of the decade” plaudits from legendary developer Peter…
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It hasn’t been a great couple of months for social gaming company Zynga. Zynga, which derives much of its revenue from Facebook-based games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, suffered mightily from Facebook’s less-than-triumphant May 18 IPO. Zynga’s shares lost almost 14% of their value, and were so volatile that they twice tripped…
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A pre-sale is technically a licensing of certain specified distribution rights for a film. Simply, a producer conveys some of his rights to a distributor, who is responsible for marketing and releasing the film to the public to generate revenue.
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The last two decades have seen epic centralization of power in the media, particularly in the film industry. A handful of conglomerates now own all the major studios, with publicly traded parent companies, broadcast and cable channel siblings, distribution subsidiaries, and at each respective helm, a seasoned and polished corporate executive. It…
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As Chinese consumers decide how to allocate their growing disposable incomes, movies are attracting increasingly large audiences, to the benefit of the American film industry. In the past five years, the number of movie theaters in China has doubled to almost 11,000, with several thousand more expected to open by 2013. Chinese…
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Over the last three decades, scores of musicians have experimented with and elevated tiny blips of electronic noise to chart topping records. But the concert hall of bleeps and bloops does not only host the likes of Daft Punk, Justice, and the Blue Man Group, this stage also belongs to video game…
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The value of the dollar has certainly dipped in the past few years, but there’s a number of new currencies that might have investors clamoring for a more digital kind of coin.
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It’s nearly Valentine’s day and love is in the virtual air. A million questions abound: Will he ask me to go on that raid with him in World of Warcraft? Can someone with only a +2 bonus to Charisma really charm her way into a date? How long will it take to…
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Video games are now art. Legally. The conspicuous categorization (that is, now, the “legalization”) of video games as art has been widely reported and debated, but never as intensely as last week, when the United States Supreme Court struck down a California law banning sales of violent video games to children. The…
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The problem with agentic wallets is not that they can move money. The problem is that they can move money without becoming legally responsible for what they do.
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