In 1990, the Port of Portland received a new container crane—the largest available at the time—built by Hyundai Heavy in Seoul. When the crane arrived, balanced across the beam of this massive ship, I was on site because I happened to be working for a small, Seattle-based industrial production company hired to make documentary films about the crane’s rigging and installation. This ...
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I know it seems like we have ample government shenanigans to watch on TV right now, but in case you missed the real barn-burner yesterday, it was announced that Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple has been named as the next Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel at the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Why? What were you paying attention to? You ...
Assuming the Republic survives the present era, I think the retrospective phrase we might use to describe the spirit of the last two decades might be If it ain’t broke, hold my beer. Because it does seem as though quite a few people in positions of influence were at some point infected by the tech industry’s disrupt everything culture and, thus, began dismantling core ...
When it comes to copyright infringement, the internet—namely social media platforms—has taught even very large commercial entities some very bad habits. When I read yesterday morning that singer/songwriter Jason Mraz filed suit yesterday against MillerCoors LLC for making infringing use of his mega-hit “I’m Yours” on Instagram, my first thought was “Of course they did,” when it really should have been ...
