July 31, 2005 Court TV Rules on Day and Night Programming Split Also: Features on 'Rize'; 'School of Rock'; Al Wasserman, 1921-2005 Read more
June 30, 2005 Litwak's Latest: The Next Best Thing to a Lawyer A review of 'Risky Business: Financing & Distributing Independent Films' Read more
June 30, 2005 Rethinking the Soundtrack to Your Life: Flexibility and Adaptability Are the Keys to Clearing the Music for Your Film This past year has been a watermark year for documentarians, with documentaries moving more and more into the mainstream of public awareness and Read more
June 30, 2005 Documentarian in a Rights Dance Over Matisse Imagery Documentaries about 20th century artists are rarely produced these days, and for a very good reason: The filmmakers can't afford to pay for rights. Read more
June 30, 2005 Fair Use: The Documentarian's Best Friend By Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi A study conducted with some 50 documentary filmmakers over the course of a year, the American University's "Untold Read more
June 30, 2005 Little Orphan Indie: The Problem of Rights Clearances and the IDA Solution If you have ever used a clip or a photo or an existing piece of music in your documentary, you must have spent more than a little time looking for Read more
January 31, 2005 Cable Entanglements: The Devil's in the Details Deliverables. Boilerplate. Milestones. E&O. Those are the words that follow "You've got a deal" or "We want you to make your film for our channel Read more
November 30, 2004 Camcorders as Security Threats: Have the Terrorists Already Won? Slowly the signs are going up. I saw the first one a few weeks ago. It said, "Due to new security regulations, there is no use of camcorders or Read more
October 31, 2004 Lawyers, Deals and Money: An Indie Filmmaker's Checklist The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide A Business and Legal Sourcebook By Gunnar Erickson, Harris Tulchin and Mark Halloran <Schirmer Read more
August 31, 2004 A Cultural Shift in Copyright: Creative Commons Fosters File-Sharing Concepts Who owns the images of our world? Where do ideas end and images begin? How can we both defend the freedoms and rights of filmmakers and encourage the Read more