{"id":3462,"date":"2004-01-30T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/01\/30\/studios-go-after-screener-distributo"},"modified":"2004-01-30T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-30T19:52:00","slug":"studios-go-after-screener-distributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/01\/30\/studios-go-after-screener-distributor\/","title":{"rendered":"Studios Go After &#8220;Screener&#8221; Distributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a584'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>A few weeks ago, Ernest <A href=\"http:\/\/importance.typepad.com\/the_importance_of\/2004\/01\/a_beam_in_holly.html\">wrote:<\/A> &#8221; But have we heard anything from the movie studios about [Oscar &#8220;screeners&#8221; ending up on the Internet]? Why haven&#8217;t they taken any action on this blatant disregard for the rights of the copyright holders?&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Maybe they heard Ernest, because two studies <A href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;cid=514&amp;u=\/ap\/20040129\/ap_on_en_mo\/film_oscar_screeners_1&amp;printer=1\">have now sued<\/A> actor Carmine Caridi for allowing his friend, Russell Sprague, to copy a VHS screener and distribute it on the Internet (news via pho).&nbsp;&nbsp;Sprague has also been charged with <EM>criminal <\/EM>copyright infringement.&nbsp; The MPAA hasn&#8217;t sued their own customers, but they have sued one of their own &#8211; very interesting.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Ernest wrote: &#8221; But have we heard anything from the movie studios about [Oscar &#8220;screeners&#8221; ending up on the Internet]? Why haven&#8217;t they taken any action on this blatant disregard for the rights of the copyright holders?&#8221; Maybe they heard Ernest, because two studies have now sued actor Carmine Caridi for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}