[modfilms-general] SANCTUARY NEWSLETTER > AUGUST 17 > 2005

[Alex Zinzi]

TRADEMARK LINUX. MAKE CASH 
Now here's a pearler... take a word synonymous with freedom and shared 
resources, trademark it and then start licensing it out. An allegedly 
crackpot lawyer in Perth, Jeremy Malcolm is kicking up a storm with demands 
for 'Linux' users to pay up to AU$5000 in license fees. More embarassing 
news from home. 
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/15/2149225&from=rss


DTV: NON-PROFIT TV & VIDEO
A new open source platform for Internet broadcasts and podcasts was launched 
this week by the Participatory Culture Foundation. DTV aims to harness the 
power of RSS video enclosures and Bit Torrent to provide a low cost 
mechanism for online expression. It all sounds very noble but ultimately 
it's still TV. http://participatoryculture.org/download.php


CITROEN AD GETS REMIXED.. YET AGAIN!
Remember that cool little MOD of the Citroen C4 ad (the one where the car 
transforms itself into a Dancing Robot, and then into a busted up 
Volkswagen.. yeah of course you remember!) Well here's yet another funky 
little MOD of that ad, this time featuring er... would you believe bacon and 
eggs!! http://www.best4web.ch/fun/bacon_n_eggs.html


MURDOCH BUYS PREMIER SOCIAL NETWORK SITE 
Intermix Media, the owner of social networking site and blog host MySpace, 
has recently been acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for $580 million 
USD. The deal delivers some 30 websites to the News Corporation empire and 
is said to deliver a doubling of News Corps web traffic figures. Although 
primarily a social networking site, MySpace is considered by a bevy of Film 
& Video Producers, Music-makers and assorted Commercial and Non-commercial 
Artists as an invaluable Promotional tool. Murdoch's no fool.. he's just 
secured himself a front-row seat in what may well turn out to be youth 
culture's biggest Interactive Virtual Mall.


NEWS-HOUND AND MEDIA WATCH-DOG QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will 
be the fast beating the slow." Rupert Murdoch
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