L'incroyable histoire du plus populaire des jeux vidéo et comment il a rencontré la ferveur des joueurs du monde entier. Henk Rogers découvre Tetris en 1988 et risque le tout pour le tout lorsqu'il se rend en URSS, où il s'allie à Alexey Pajitnov, pour faire connaître le jeu au monde entier. Inspiré d'une historie vraie, Tetris est un explosif thriller sur fond de guerre froide, avec des traîtres, des héros improbables et une infernale course contre la montre.
TPB AFK est un documentaire sur trois passionnés d'informatique qui ont redéfini le monde de la distribution multimédia avec leur site de partage de fichiers The Pirate Bay. Le documentaire explore ce qu'ont véçus les pirates les plus détestés d’Hollywood à un niveau personnel pendant les années de leur procès: Les 3 cofondateurs de The Pirate Bay doivent 13 millions de dollars en dommage et intérêt à Hollywood pour une affaire de droits d'auteur. Fredrik est sur le point d'installer un nouvel ordinateur dans la salle secrète des serveurs. C'est là que le plus grand site de partage de fichiers au monde est caché. Lorsque le hacker Gottfrid, l'activiste Peter et le geek Fredrik sont déclarés coupables, ils sont confrontés à la vie hors ligne - loin du clavier. Mais au fond, dans des sombres centres de données, des ordinateurs clandestins continuent tranquillement à transférer des fichiers...
A young and successful copywriter Alan Despot, after trying in vain to renew a broken relationship with his girlfriend, goes to the island of Vis and finds himself torn between his eccentric father, another ex-girlfriend and her fiancé. New situations and circumstances help Alan to view his own life from a new perspective.
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Directors Twila Raftu and Shaun Cronin explore the controversial issue of free data exchange and the growing impact of copyright legislation, intellectual property laws and digital rights management from the viewpoint of those dedicated to the unregulated flow of creative products and information. Advocates of "free culture," including Xbox hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang and underground rapper Adam "Doseone" Drucker, offer opinions and commentary.
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about the "the changing concept of copyright" directed by Brett Gaylor.
Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money. This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty years, innovative hip-hop performers and producers have been re-using portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions. When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a “borrowed melody” became a “copyright infringement.” The film showcases many of hip-hop music’s founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital Underground—while also featuring emerging hip-hop artists from record labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more.
Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing and other technological advances.
Star Wars fans, party clowns, scientists, a Rolling Stones tribute band, a private detective, teachers, artists, DJ's, magazine editors, top legal scholars, FBI agents, corporate litigators and many more tell an "extraordinary" tale about how ownership of ideas has come into conflict with free expression. "Willful Infringement", which premiered 2003 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has been acclaimed as an entertaining, surprising and sometime shocking report from the front lines of intellectual property. This movie has screened at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Seattle Art Museum, the Franklin Institute of Science in Philadelphia, at the 17th Leeds International Film Festival, and at numerous universities, law schools and cultural events.
Faut-il republier «Mein Kampf» - qui est tombé dans le domaine public le 1er janvier 2016 ? Une exploration des questions que soulève ce pamphlet tristement célèbre, objet de controverses et de fantasmes. Ce «texte fondateur» du nazisme demeure-t-il dangereux dans une Europe où s'exacerbent les crispations identitaires et la xénophobie
A film about Men At Work, their hit single Down Under, and the Kookaburra controversy. The band were sued for copyright infringement and faced the label of 'plagiarists', 35 years after their success. An examination of the organic development of the song, its commercial success and cultural significance and questions the relationship between art and law, influence and copyright.
A documentary about the Swedish organisation Copyswede and the work they claim to be behind. If you bought a USB drive, hard drive, DVD, CD, computer, iPhone or another device that can be used in private copying, you are directly affected, whether you like it or not. This documentary will investigate and discuss the organisation Copyswede and see how it affect, improves or directly work against the copyright laws, electronics industry, wholesalers and retailers, not to forget the consumer and the creatives.
As the novel 『LimGeojeong』 becomes a great success, the publisher and the writer's bereaved family in North Korea meet to solve the copyright problem. Their exchanges between South and North Korea create another novel-like story that condenses issues in various fields including politics, economy, and culture together with concerns and hospitality.
“Other People’s Footage: Copyright & Fair Use” uses on-camera interviews with 19 noted documentarians including Haskell Wexler, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, and Scott Hamilton Kennedy along with several legal experts to examine the three questions crucial to determining fair use exemptions for documentary filmmakers. The documentary presents illustrative examples from nonfiction films that use pre-existing footage, music and sound from other individuals' creations—without permission or paying fees.