MiLi Pro Turns Your iPhone Into a Projector

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The MiLi Pro is a LCOS, LED-driven projector for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Simply pop your iPhone into it and it can put a screen up on your wall.

It’s got a 640×480 resolution, so it probably won’t look all that good at 70 inches, which is why they recommend 40 tops. Also, at 10 lumens, you’ll be lucky to get 30 inches in a dark room.

The whole thing is rechargeable and has VGA and RCA inputs as well as a dock connector. Look for it to drop in September. [PhoneSuit]

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FileMaker Pro 8 Plays Leading Role at International Film Festival Summit

FileMaker Is Exclusive Technology Sponsor of International Conference December 5th & 6th.

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By independentfilm.com

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The International Film Festival Summit ( http://www.filmfestivalsummit.com/ ) relies on FileMaker Pro database software to help it run the world’s largest conference of film festival producers. FileMaker, Inc. is also a Technology Sponsor of the event, which runs December 5-6, at the Time Warner Building, in New York, NY.

“FileMaker is an invaluable resource for The International Film Festival Summit when it comes to organizing contacts, attendees, sponsors, and tasks,” said Todd Brockman, chairman of The International Film Festival Summit. “Many of the festivals that attend our event are staunch supporters and heavily rely on FileMaker to run their Film Festivals as well, so it was a natural fit to have FileMaker as a sponsor.”

FileMaker Pro is used by the following film festivals: Telluride Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival; Tribeca Film Festival; Festival des Films du Monde; Maui Film Festival; Woodstock Film Festival; Mill Valley Film Festival; the Seattle Film Festival; and many more.

Considered the leading gathering of film festival producers in the world, the International Film Festival Summit attracts more than 300 film industry leaders and attendees representing more than 800 official film festivals across the globe. By some industry estimates, there are another 1,100 unofficial film festivals held annually.

Many of the film festival managers in attendance rely on FileMaker to organize and run their own festivals. In fact, Seattle International Film Festival will showcase how FileMaker Pro 8 has helped it become one of the most acclaimed film festivals internationally.

On Dec. 6, Kristine Towne, manager of information systems for the Seattle International Film Festival, will make a presentation on “Planning and Organizing the Grand-Scheme,” demonstrating how her festival uses FileMaker Pro 8 to efficiently manage all key aspects of their festival, from updating the festival web site to scheduling, venue management, sponsorship and corporate relations, volunteer tracking and even raising funds.

“Movies are not just about entertainment, they are an integral factor in cultural exchange and education,” said Towne. “FileMaker Pro is an integral tool that helps us make a contribution in spreading this cross-cultural understanding.”

FileMaker Pro is used by more than 100,000 creative professionals worldwide to effortlessly access and manage client details, job status, digital assets, timesheets and more within advertising agencies, direct mail companies, print vendors, media buying agencies, motion picture and video production companies, photography studios, graphics design agencies and animation studios.

About FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker Pro is used by millions of individuals and workgroups around the world to be more productive and efficient. Business, education and government customers rely on FileMaker to manage people, projects, images, assets and other information. In addition to being the number one-selling easy-to-use database software, the award-winning FileMaker product line also includes low-cost Applications that automate basic business tasks, ready-to-use Starter Solutions, and tools to create and share solutions from the desktop to the web. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc.

About the International Film Festival Summit

The International Film Festival Summit is the annual event for professionals from the film festival industry. Our annual event the International Film Festival Summit brings the industry together to explore ways to collaborate and promote the advancement of the Film Festival industry. This is a place to dialogue with your peers, share insights and gain knowledge that will help you grow your film festival and keep it thriving or help understand the value of festival sponsorship opportunities and the impact on economic growth in communities. Whether you are a festival director, programmer, a marketing executive for a consumer product manufacturer or a member of an economic development council, if you are thinking about film festivals, this conference is for you.

The International Film Festival Summit is dedicated to providing resources, information and avenues of communication for industry professionals, vendors, and anyone committed to the Film Festival Industry. It is committed to the idea that Film Festivals are an important cultural celebration, a powerful voice in our society, and increasingly play a vital role in connecting not only the local communities they serve, but the world globally.

NOTE: FileMaker is a trademark of FileMaker, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

Source: FileMaker, Inc.

Web site: http://www.filmfestivalsummit.com

Web site: http://www.filemaker.com

Old story, but useful.

Found a list at dmoz of FileMaker Consultants and Developers.

This is for my own references. All FileMakers, yeah.

What about people who aren’t bright in any sense? I have a friend who went to an Ivy League college after graduating from a typically mediocre public high school. One of the values of going to such a school, she once said, is that it teaches you to relate to stupid people. Some people are smart in the elite-college way, some are smart in other ways, and some aren’t smart at all. It should be embarrassing not to know how to talk to any of them, if only because talking to people is the only real way of knowing them. Elite institutions are supposed to provide a humanistic education, but the first principle of humanism is Terence’s: “nothing human is alien to me.” The first disadvantage of an elite education is how very much of the human it alienates you from.

Interesting article. I may have well be on this track until we moved to Woodstock. That move exposed me ‘regular’ folks (even if they were all white), something that wouldn’t have happened had I stayed at Decatur and ended up at one of the elite schools in Chicago. UIUC was also filled with ‘regular’ folk, at least outside the engineering circles (where I spent most of my time the first time around).

Faved!

The “it teaches you to relate to stupid people” phrase is really well said.

B. Copyright Protection: What It Is, How It Works

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Frequently asked questions to help you protect your creative work and avoid infringing the rights of others. What’s Below: What role does a copyright notice play? What is a valid copyright notice? When can I use a work without the author’s permission? What role does a copyright notice play? Until 1989, a published work had to contain a valid copyright notice to receive protection under the copyright laws. But this requirement is no longer in force — works first published after March 1, 1989 need not include a copyright notice to gain protection under the law. But even though a copyright notice is not required, it’s still important to include one. When a work contains a valid notice, an infringer cannot claim in court that he or she didn’t know it was copyrighted. This makes it much easier to win a copyright infringement case and perhaps collect enough damages to make the cost of the case worthwhile. And the very existence of a notice might discourage infringement. Finally, including a copyright notice may make it easier for a potential infringer to track down a copyright owner and legitimately obtain permission to use the work. Back to top What is a valid copyright notice? A copyright notice should contain: the word “copyright” a “c” in a circle (©) the date of publication, and the name of either the author or the owner of all the copyright rights in the published work. For example, the correct copyright for the ninth edition of The Copyright Handbook, by Stephen Fishman (Nolo) is Copyright © 2006 by Stephen Fishman. In the United States, a copyright owner can significantly enhance the protection afforded by a basic copyright. This is done by registering the copyright with the U.S. Copyright office. See Copyright Registration and Enforcement. International Copyright Protection Copyright protection rules are fairly similar worldwide, due to several international copyright treaties, the most important of which is the Berne Convention. Under this treaty, all member countries — and there are more than 100, including virtually all industrialized nations — must afford copyright protection to authors who are nationals of any member country. This protection must last for at least the life of the author plus 50 years, and must be automatic without the need for the author to take any legal steps to preserve the copyright. In addition to the Berne Convention, the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) treaty contains a number of provisions that affect copyright protection in signatory countries. Together, the Berne Copyright Convention and the GATT treaty allow U.S. authors to enforce their copyrights in most industrialized nations, and allow the nationals of those nations to enforce their copyrights in the U.S. Back to top When can I use a work without the author’s permission? When a work becomes available for use without permission from a copyright owner, it is said to be “in the public domain.” Most works enter the public domain because their copyrights have expired. To determine whether a work is in the public domain and available for use without the author’s permission, you first have to find out when it was published. Then apply the following rules to see if the copyright has expired: All works published in the United States before 1923 are in the public domain. Works published after 1922, but before 1978 are protected for 95 years from the date of publication. If the work was created, but not published, before 1978, the copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. However, even if the author died over 70 years ago, the copyright in an unpublished work lasts until December 31, 2002. For works published after 1977, the copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. However, if the work is a work for hire (that is, the work is done in the course of employment or has been specifically commissioned) or is published anonymously or under a pseudonym, the copyright lasts between 95 and 120 years, depending on the date the work is published. Lastly, if the work was published between 1923 and 1963, you must check with the U.S. Copyright Office to see whether the copyright was properly renewed. If the author failed to renew the copyright, the work has fallen into the public domain and you may use it. The Copyright Office will check renewal information for you, at a charge of $150 per hour. (Call the Reference & Bibliography Section at 202-707-6850.) You can also hire a private copyright search firm to see if a renewal was filed. Finally, you may be able to conduct a renewal search yourself. The renewal records for works published from 1950 to the present are available online at www.copyright.gov. Renewal searches for earlier works can be conducted at the Copyright Office in Washington D.C. or by visiting one of the many government depository libraries throughout the country. Call the Copyright Office for more information. With one important exception, you should assume that every work is protected by copyright unless you can establish that it is not. As mentioned above, you can’t rely on the presence or absence of a copyright notice (©) to make this determination, because a notice is not required for works published after March 1, 1989. And even for works published before 1989, the absence of a copyright notice may not affect the validity of the copyright — for example, if the author made diligent attempts to correct the situation. The exception is for materials put to work under the “fair use rule.” This rule recognizes that society can often benefit from the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials when the purpose of the use serves the ends of scholarship, education or an informed public. For example, scholars must be free to quote from their research resources in order to comment on the material. To strike a balance between the needs of a public to be well-informed and the rights of copyright owners to profit from their creativity, Congress passed a law authorizing the use of copyrighted materials in certain circumstances deemed to be “fair” — even if the copyright owner doesn’t give permission. Often, it’s difficult to know whether a court will consider a proposed use to be fair. The fair use statute requires the courts to consider the following questions in deciding this issue: Is it a competitive use? (In other words, if the use potentially affects the sales of the copied material, it’s usually not fair.) How much material was taken compared to the entire work of which the material was a part? (The more someone takes, the less likely it is that the use is fair.) How was the material used? Is it a transformative use? (If the material was used to help create something new it is more likely to be considered a fair use that if it is merely copied verbatim into another work. Criticism, comment, news reporting, research, scholarship and non-profit educational uses are most likely to be judged fair uses. Uses motivated primarily by a desire for a commercial gain are less likely to be fair use). As a general rule, if you are using a small portion of somebody else’s work in a non-competitive way and the purpose for your use is to benefit the public, you’re on pretty safe ground. On the other hand, if you take large portions of someone else’s expression for your own purely commercial reasons, the rule usually won’t apply. If You Want to Use Material on the Internet Each day, people post vast quantities of creative material on the Internet — material that is available for downloading by anyone who has the right computer equipment. Because the information is stored somewhere on an Internet server, it is fixed in a tangible medium and potentially qualifies for copyright protection. Whether it does, in fact, qualify depends on other factors that you would have no way of knowing about, such as when the work was first published (which affects the need for a copyright notice), whether the copyright in the work has been renewed (for works published before 1978), whether the work is a work made for hire (which affects the length of the copyright) and whether the copyright owner intends to dedicate the work to the public domain. If you want to download the material for use in your own work, you should be cautious. It’s best to track down the author of the material and ask for permission. Generally, you can claim a fair use right for using a very small portion of text for commentary, scholarship or smilar purposes.