Showing posts with label Showtime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Showtime. Show all posts

Thursday, January 04, 2007

What happens when America's Attic Gets an Overhaul?

D.C.'s own Smithsonian Institution is in some luke warm water over a deal made with Showtime (luke warm because it's pretty much a done deal), essentially giving the media company exclusive rights to the institute's films. A report published by the Government Accountability Office, released last month details that the deal is unfair filmmakers. Boiling it down: filmmakers have about a 30% change of being able to use important, historic material.

The Smithsonian offered a response to the report