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OK so the news late last night was pretty horrific. Yes, we're all setting up barter economies and I've started planting vegetables, but the thing that really did it was the BBC art department.

First, we had the great big red "CRISIS" artwork background, red on white with an extrabold down-arrow extending the "R" downwards to the studio floor. Last night it was the share price indicator (again, in glowing, black-on-red) which was synchronised to the newsreader "then this happened" and the red line takes a vertical plunge.

Basically, only Chris Morris did it better:

If they keep this up they'll have us wearing denim overalls and playing ukulele on the G-Man breadline by next Monday.

Well it used to be Big Oil or Big Business but we really are seeing the emergence of Big Copyright

Ohna's award-winning short film has been pulled by Google because of an automated copyright alert. This smells exactly the same as Google's ongoing mistreatment of the little guy. The same rules apply: justice cannot be applied by formula or filter. Unless each case is handled (note 'hand' as in 'human') individually by a trained adjudicator a never ending stream of injustice ensues.

I suggest Google work out how to pay for this adjudication service soon as sooner or later they're going to need a new business model...

Ohna reports:

Yesterday our short film SON was taken off YouTube's screening room because someone at Paramount Pictures copyright police company decided that maybe we had used some footage from Son Of Rambow. Whoever made this decision had obviously not watched the film as SON is obviously all original footage and in fact the only ressemblance to Paramount's film is the word SON in the title and the fact that there is a young boy in the cast. Despite the obvious blunder Paramount are making no effort to remedy the situation by removing their notice from YouTube and by doing so are damaging our reputation and possibly causing us loss of income.

The woman could use some words of support. Go comment on her post

And if you are aware of similar events, make you register each and every case with the EFF's chilling effects website.

Ohna's film Son won best UK short film at Edinburgh last month and now the picture is being featured on the YouTube Screening Room and hey I'm impressed :-)

Click on the pic above or on the Paypal button below to make a donation to the Ohna's film fund and download a handy iPod/iTouch mpeg file (make sure you click on "Return to Sister Films" to get your download link).

Nice one Ohna :-)

Hey, Jed's on TV :-)

So I managed to read through Adam Buxton's website for ages before I realised it was Adam as in Adam and Joe Adam ohhhhh righhhhht...

Thanks DutchAsHell

So while I'm on the film theme, here's a frame from a classic picture on the iPod (click on the photo to zoom in, the text reads "unica").

Hey, it's a quiz, can you name the picture from the still?

Total fabulousness, now that's what I call a desktop.
(get yours at shilpa-shetty.com)

Just got back from UGtv, crashed on the couch and have just woken up to Open University classics. How to give yourself jetlag without ever getting on a plane...

Basically it was reasonably well attended with a few interesting speakers (and good catering too). I was hoping to hear about innovative image and film creation based on partnerships between production, broadcast and audience players. In the end, most talks and their associated questions were largely to do with how cheap UGtv is... More later if I can muster the enthusiasm.

The obligatory YouTube videos and Flickr photo set

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Am off to UGTV '06 — User-Generated TV summit I'll let you know how it goes.

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Just back from seeing Kiss kiss bang bang at the London Film festival (thanks Billy) and tomorrow Billy has scored some tickets to hear the director talk.

Actually, he talked tonight so that'll be two in a row. Billy and I are trying to think up some interesting questions for tomorrow...