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In the days leading up to Christmas, residents traveled to the Nickelodeon theater for a special viewing of the heartwarming, Watercrest-sponsored film, “Forgetting Christmas” which brought smiles and joy to the entire audience. Another uplifting outing was the exuberant Christmas pageant at First Baptist Church of Columbia where the rich music and brilliant lights exhilarated … Read more
BEIJING — Chinese lawmakers Friday weighed in on a fiery online debate on whether fireworks should be used to ring in the Lunar New Year in February, saying a total ban on pyrotechnics in the country credited with inventing them would be hard to implement. In an unusually frank response, lawmakers said air pollution prevention … Read more
Entertainment It will cost $2.99 a month for Canadian viewers to opt out of ads on Amazon’s Prime Video starting in February. Company representatives told the Canadian Press they will introduce commercial breaks to TV shows on the streaming service starting Feb. 5, 2024 for customers who choose not to pay extra. Canadian viewers can opt … Read more
When businesspeople retire at an advanced age, it seldom makes headlines. But when 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch announced in September that he was stepping away from his multicontinent media empire and turning it over to his son Lachlan, it was breaking news that generated countless stories speculating about the futures of two of his most storied … Read more
Despite downturns at the corporate end of town, podcasts again this year proved to be a powerful medium for new voices and previously overlooked stories. As a judge of the Walkleys and New York Festivals, I listened to a lot of content. I was struck by how open this medium is still to newcomers, and … Read more
Pick of the week Fool Me Once The moment one of former soldier Maya’s friends gives her a secret nanny-cam, you get a hunch about where this Harlan Coben thriller adaptation might be going. Maya (Michelle Keegan) is recently bereaved – her husband Joe was brutally murdered two weeks earlier – but what do you … Read more
“This is a deeply symbolic, highly anticipated moment,” said Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Centre for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School in the US state of North Carolina. Mickey Mouse in “Steamboat Willie” (1928). Photo: Getty Images Anyone is now free to copy, share, reuse and adapt Steamboat Willie and … Read more
The LUX Audience Film Award Ceremony will take place on 27 June at 18.00 in the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels. The event will be open to Members of the European Parliament and the public, reflecting the way in which the winning film was selected by both MEPs and the audience. Following a … Read more
Young Walt Disney works at his drawing board circa 1930. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive Every Jan. 1, a new batch of books, movies and other artistic creations enters the public domain. Copyright law in the United States is a complicated matter, but at its simplest, what’s happening this year is this: As of Jan. 1, 2024, the copyright … Read more
