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Tina Chow wears a 1938 Schiaparelli gown from her personal collection. The dress is entirely covered in blue bugle beads.

The revised Google Book Settlement agreement was filed with the court yesterday evening.

The admirably tenacious James Grimmelmann of the New York Law School has worked through the night, tweeting as he went, making an initial analysis of the changes.

He has posted the revised settlement here, and, even more useful to those of us who have studied version one, he has also posted a version in which the changes are marked in blue.

I shall make a start here on covering the main points, primarily from a UK viewpoint:

The settlement now excludes all foreign works except those published in the UK, Canada and Australia.

Google and the plaintiffs shot themselves in the foot over the non-Anglophone countries when they sent out inadequately-translated notices. But excluding those countries also removes many of the best-organised objectors: among them the French, the Germans, and the Japanese. It also heads off trouble from China and India.

However, not all Anglophone countries are included. New Zealand is out; and so is India, which has a big English-language publishing sector. And Ireland is not included either, which is interesting.

In New Zealand the NZ Society of Authors opposed the settlement strongly, and lobbied their government, which agreed to meet with them to discuss how to address their concerns.

As I noted earlier this week, the Indian government has put diplomatic pressure on the US government over the GBS: presumably as a result of representations from Indian authors and/or publishers.

Two UK authors have been added as 'representative plaintiffs': the novelist, poet, dramatist and non-fiction writer Maureen Duffy and the novelist, memoirist and non-fiction writer Margaret Drabble.

Duffy is someone I have always respected and admired, as a writer, as an 'out' lesbian novelist in the sixties (a time when there really were no others) and as a very effective campaigner for the rights of UK authors (for example, in the matter of the Public Lending Right). It grieves me unspeakably to see her in this role.

Margaret Drabble is the current Chairman of the UK Society of Authors.

Maureen Duffy is the Honorary President of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society.

I am not a member of either of these societies. But if either of them has widely consulted with its membership over the Google Book Settlement, news of this has not reached me.

And I wrote my paper The Google Book Settlement and European Authors largely because the accounts they were giving their members and other inquirers of the contents and implications of the original GBS agreement seemed to me to pass over some very cogent criticisms of it that I was encountering in the work of well-informed US legal commentators such as Lynn Chu, C. E. Petit, James Grimmelmann and Pamela Samuelson.

A question that must be asked is this: is it compatible with UK and European law that two individual citizens can purport to assign a perpetual licence to the intellectual property of a huge number of other UK citizens to a foreign company in a foreign court, without the property owners' express consent or even in many cases their knowledge?

There are two more new plaintiffs: Daniel Jay Baum and Robert Pullan. Baum is a Canadian writer on legal topics with strong academic connections.

Pullan is the Chair of the Australian Society of Authors. I cannot find that any of his handful of books is currently in print. His most recent book publication appears to have come out in 1994.

Two UK publishers have now been added as plaintiffs: Harlequin, the romance publisher, and Macmillan.

The UK Publishers Association has stated that its members are divided over the settlement. Some have opted out: which, we do not know. The only UK publisher to stay in and object was Hachette UK, which owns Headline, Hodder, John Murray, Little, Brown, Octopus and one or two other imprints.

From Australia, Melbourne University Publishing and The Text Publishing Company have been added. I don't see a Canadian publisher here.

Lunch calls. I hope to post more later today, but it may have to wait until tomorrow.

But hey: if you are a UK author reading this and you don't like what you see: this is crunch time.

Inform yourself. Tell your friends and acquaintances. Organise. Lobby.

Contact your elected representatives, the UK Culture Secretary, and the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

The ALCS and (apparently) the Society of Authors have been assimilated by the Borg.

But: one thing the GBS agreement mark 2 does show is that where authors have successfully lobbied their governments to put pressure on the US, works published in those countries have been excluded from the scope of the settlement.

It is time for some tough resistance from the grass-roots.

LeVar Burton (TNG's Geordi La Forge) attended/gave a panel with his BFF and business partner at "Breakthrough Brit Week" in West Hollywood last week.



Actor LeVar Burton attends Breakthrough Brit Week roundtable discussion With Mark Wolfe And LeVar Burton at The London Hotel on November 3, 2009 in West Hollywood, California.

( Breakthrough Brit Week )

He also tweeted some awesome photos from (I assume) the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation benefit dinner and memorabilia/autograph thingy on the 7th.



Michael Dorn, Buzz Aldrin, LeVar Burton, and Marina Sirtis

Awesome.

( 1 MOAR )

IDEK. I'm giggling like a little kid. I think that Reading Rainbow episode where they visit the TNG set is the reason I'm a Trekkie. I can't be the only one.

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Whoa, guys. BoingBoing just linked to this auction item at CharityBuzz:



Enjoy a Private Tour of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA with Leonard Nimoy!

So far, the highest bid is just over 5K. Anyone got enough extra shekels lying around to top that?

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We've frequently noted the scores of movie magazines that were around when Caroe Lombard was a star - Photoplay, Screenland, Movie Mirror, Picture Play, Screen Book, Motion Picture, Movie Classic, Modern Screen -- that we may have overlooked a few.

One f them was called simply Movies, and I really don't know much about it. Apparently it existed as early as 1934, and it was still around in January 1940, when its cover was a photo of Mr. Gable and Mrs. Gable:



Nice cover of Clark and Carole, isn't it?

Inside was an article, "Will Lombard Leave The Screen?" I haven't read it, so I can only conhecture that it probably concerned Carole's rocky shift to dramatic films and the rumors that she might focus her energy on being Clark Gable's spouse and trying to have a child by him. (Interesting to see the headline on the cover read "Lowdown On Lombard," a title that was used several times over the years in a variety of magazines.

This may be a great article on Carole, or it could be as generic and bland as the magazine's title. You can find out by winning this issue at auction at eBay. One bid has already been made, at $6.99; bidding closes at just after 9:05 p.m. (Eastern) on Sunday. The seller says the issue is in good conditon, with some wear on the spine and a crease in the lower right-hand cover.

Should this issue strike your interest, simply go to http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-CAROLE-LOMBARD-GABLE-1940-MOVIEs-Magazine_W0QQitemZ190347805595QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMagazines?hash=item2c519d039b.

Bwahaha, somebody has finally made a spock_chapel comm. AWESOME. Now, quick, somebody cast Anne Dudek as Chapel in the next Abrams film.

Meme! That I have in fact done before! But, well, hulamoth gave me new prompts, and who am I to resist?

Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

( Robin Hood, Terry Pratchett, Horatio Hornblower )

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The Velvet Touch

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You can find more fabulous vintage dresses, suits, handbags, sweaters, and shoes from more sellers at the VINTAGE FASHION GUILD FASHION PARADE!

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11/13 Seattle International Cabaret Festival-

http://www.thecancan.com/cabaretfestival/schedule3.html

ACT Theatre:
https://www.acttheatre.org/TicketsPlays/Play.aspx?prod=2773

First show: The Heavenly Spies in Kiss Kiss and the Bang Bang Bang (7-8:30pm)

Second show: The Bad Things 6th Annual Cabaret Macabre (9:30-1am)
Bad Things, Peculiar Pretzelmen, Baby Gramps, Danbert, more

The Can Can:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/9104

6-7:30 The Castaways perform as part of the International Cabaret Festival in the CABARESQUE!

8-9:30 The Can Can Castaways in I See London, I See France w/ very special guests Iva Handfull, Stella Rose, Queen Shmooquan, and Waxie Moon!

10-Close I (heart) Shiva

Pensione Nichols
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7-10 On Friday, Nov. 13, Armitage Shanks plays host to an evening devoted to the great Kurt Weill.

Friday November 13, 2009

One thing that made me happy was at work this little boy who was at the end of the counter trying to think of all the posssible ways to use the term "blue-footed booby." It reminded me of when I was little and thought that was the funniest thing ever and I was glad to see that kids still laugh about the same things I did when I was little. Yay for the blue-footed booby bird bringing joy to the masses.

19:48 Apparently I turn into Miss South Carolina during job interviews. And I don't mean perky and blonde. bit.ly/3fWeQp #

19:49 Tinfoil hats on Fringe! WOOOP WOOP BONG! #

23:47 RT @rstevens The best alternate Beatles history you will read today: bit.ly/1J1CI6 #

01:02 Old school: I keep my personal files in a folder on C drive. Not /Users/Mydocuments or some-such nonsense. Windows really doesn't like it. #

12:42 LCROSS impact resulted in discovering water on the moon. Clearly the moon bombin
g was an inside job. bit.ly/4CIJaJ #

13:37 An officer and a gentleman and a beard #startrekmovietitles #

13:41 There's something about Gary Seven #startrekmovietitles #

13:49 Farpoint and away #startrekmovietitles #

13:51 From Risa with Love #startrekmovietitles #

13:56 For your VISOR only #startrekmovietitles #bondmovietitles #

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Title of eighteenth-century children's book, published by John Newbery:

'The Fairing: Or, Golden Toy for Children,
In which they may see all the Fun of the Fair,
And at Home be as happy as if they were there.
A Book of great Consequence to all whom it may concern. Price Six-pence bound, gilt, and adorned with Cuts.'

It first appeared in 1767, and went through a number of editions.

I don't know whether it was the source of the catchphrase 'All the fun of the fair', or whether it borrowed a phrase that was already current, but it is the earliest occurrence I can find.

I have posted some more pictures of the gallopers on Flickr; quite a lot more. For anyone who has enough enthusiasm and stamina, there is now a set of 50.

Is it a bad sign or a good sign that, even BEFORE seeing 2012, I'm trying to think up drinking games based around it?

Seriously, one of the "take a shot" moments should be if there is gratuitious usage of REM's song "It's the End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". *grin*

Yet another reason why I love this town!
Boston Mayor Tom Menino made it so today.

He tied it to the day of New England Fan Experience convention (see details here), which Leonard himself will attend on November 14th! Along with "Q" John De Lancie, Gareth David-Lloyd from Torchwood and other fine people.
According to this convention schedule, Nimoy will be having photo-ops from 11:30, autograph signing from 1-4PM, and then will hold Q&A panel from 5-6PM.

And I may not be able to go as I've only heard about this today... But maybe other people from Boston can? Maybe we can try to meet and go there?
Leonard Nimoy is in town, and on his day, come on, we should make it happen!

And maybe we can celebrate this event here, in this community tomorrow? We can start with this. :)


UPD: Nimoy also gave an interview to Boston Phoenix, and it appeared under a very appropriate title "Hot Vulcan". :)
He speaks about Three Men and a Baby, politics in Star Trek, Ballad of Bilbo Baggins and Barack Obama. Great piece!

( Proclamation under the cut! )

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

I ate huge amounts of lunch. I just can't seem to do the small meals thing. I don't know why. *sigh* In spite of that, I don't feel any MORE sick than I did before. No further nausea or longings to upchuck. This is good. I still don't feel a-bubble with energy, however. I lay down for a bit hoping to be able to sleep, but GooGoo wanted to wiggle. So much for that. But at least it was lay-down time.

I've also been such a good girl and eaten NO sweets today. I gotta say I can't help but wonder if my body is, at least in part, reacting to Not Being Fed Chocolate.

I can has bath tiem nao.