When Censorship Gets Downright Silly
By Ron Merk The British Prime Minister David Cameron has recently announced that all new computers sold in the UK will have a built-in censorship device that will protect [...]
News Ticker
July 2013
From a Brave Journalist in Turkey
By Ron Merk I have a good friend in Turkey, and he has a close friend who’s a journalist named Ece Temelkuran. She has been hassled by the Turkish government for more [...]
Frameline37
By Ron Merk Maria Lynn of Wolfe Video invited me to the Filmmaker and Film Industry Brunch, to talk about a project that Wolfe will be distributing for our company, a Spanish [...]
Eat Dessert First – Life is Too Short
By Ron Merk Yesterday I went to the de Young Museum in San Francisco to see the Richard Diebenkorn show, and had the opportunity to have a peach cobbler in the museum cafe, [...]
Do Filmmakers Need to Pay to Use the Song “Happy Birthday?”
By Ron Merk For years all of us thought that the song Happy Birthday was something that belonged to all of us, part of our collective consciousness and certainly in the [...]
3-D or not 3-D, That is the Question!
By Ron Merk As someone who was lucky enough to be a kid of movie-going age during the Golden Age of 3-D movies back in the early to mid-fifties, there is only one word to [...]
Just a Few Words
By Ron Merk As we approach the 4th of July, our American Independence Day, I think it’s a good idea to remind ourselves why we fought our revolution, and what we got [...]
It’s Time to Fix the Antiquated and Broken Copyright Law
By Ron Merk There are great things about the copyright law, and some problems, too. So, this piece is neither a rant nor a rave, but a heads-up that we need to make some [...]
Raising a Red Flag
By Ron Merk It has never been my object in the pieces that I write to be “political” as that term is generally understood, but instead to offer my opinion on a variety of [...]
Lia Russell and Ian McCaul
I’m pleased to welcome Lia Russell and Ian Mc Caul. I gave Lia and Ian an unusual assignment in asking them to both attend the same screening of the film “Terms and [...]
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