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Celebrities Engaging With Public Through Twitter

On the tail of the Oscars this weekend comes a story from the NY Times. I have read it several times because I can’t get over the possibilities. The possibilities of what you ask?

Defamer Now Part of Gawker

At the end of 2008, it was announced that Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports was acquiring Consumerist.com from Nick Denton's Gawker Media. Gawker has now dropped its Defamer.com site as its own entity and rolled it into Gawker.com as the site's "column from Hollywood."

Actors And Studios In Dispute Over Online Clips

Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the major studios stalled last week after the two parties could not reach an agreement on how actors should be compensated for online clips.Studios want to distribute clips of old TV shows and movies without actors' permission and pay them a flat fee instead of paying each actor individually. The actors union is against the measure.

Yahoo Entertainment Purge Continues

The remaining vestiges of ex-CEO Terry Semel's Hollywoodization of Yahoo continue to be swept out of the portal, as senior VP Vince Broady leaves Yahoo's entertainment division.

Striking Writers Turn To Internet

The ongoing fight between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood studios will lead to some of them exploring the possibilities of the Internet for their work.

Writers' Strike, Internet, May Remake Hollywood

Imagine a return to moviemaking where storytelling as a craft mattered most, and a writer with a dream and some financial backing could do what once required a studio to accomplish.

Writers Ding Viacom Over Google Lawsuit

Even though Hollywood executives claim this Internet thing is too new for them to figure out how much they can cut out of it for writers, the scribes pointed out Viacom seems to have an idea.

Hollywood Writers Strike For Internet Dollars

Film and TV writers are striking for the first time in almost twenty years after the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers were unable to reach an agreement.

Google, Hollywood Need To Figure Out Video

Google isn't the only company that has to determine the best way to protect copyrighted video; the movie and TV studios have to come to grips with a way to let people share content, or forever kill the ability to monetize it online.

NBC/News Corp: U Can't Touch This

With its own site for its copyrighted video content due out this month, NBC is already getting a little touchy. Peter Chernin, president and COO of News Corp, chides that Google “could do a better job” of policing for copyrighted content on YouTube, saying: