Certa noite no ano de 2003, o génio da programação e aluno de Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg, senta-se ao computador e começa a trabalhar numa nova ideia. Aquilo que inicialmente era apenas uma mistura de programação e blogging, cedo se tornou numa rede social à escala mundial, que revolucionou a forma de comunicar. Seis anos e 500 milhões de amigos depois, Mark Zuckerberg é o mais novo bilionário da História... mas para este empresário, o sucesso vai trazer-lhe também problemas pessoais e legais.
Um garoto de 14 anos, Jason Shephard (Frankie Muniz), sempre mente. Para tentar justificar o fato de não ter entregue um trabalho escolar, ele disse para a professora que seu pai quase morreu. Entretanto a mentira é descoberta, o que faz com que Jason tenha que escrever um texto de mil palavras em apenas três horas, sendo que caso não consiga terá de fazer o curso de verão. Usando sua imaginação fértil ele escreve a redação, mas ao ir para a escola sua bicicleta bate na limusine de Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti), um produtor de cinema, que lhe dá uma carona, pois temia ser processado por atropelar um garoto.
Bob Ross brought joy to millions as the world's most famous art instructor. But a battle for his business empire cast a shadow over his happy trees.
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.
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.
“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.
Indigenous farmers in Peru, Nicaragua, Italy, France, Australia and New Zealand share their intimacy with the land and the seeds they have nurtured for generations; global corporations attempt to 'own' the intellectual property of seeds.
Anna lives in a retro-futuristic dystopia where intellectual property doesn't exist: there's no creativity, no R&D, no innovation and no diversity. Tired of the reality surrounding her, she starts the search of the only original song she remembers.