2010 promises to be the beginning of a new age for the dance field, and great and wide reaching opportunities become available to even the newest of dance companies. But, once these doors open, it remains to be seen how many companies will have the infrastructure required to walk through them. Here are...

Periodically, we experience situations where people have uploaded clips to video sharing sites that TenduTV has under license. The more work we secure, the more we find unauthorized copies floating around on the web. Sometimes, the work has been uploaded by a friend, a sponsor, an affiliate or a donor...

First, A Time to Dance raised the question, and Danciti added some valid points to the discussion. Since I wanted to be sure to link to everyone who has chimed in, I’m going to continue the conversation here. Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, so yada yada yada this isn’t legal advice. Also,...

I know what we learned. Absolutely nothing. But that’s because we read the Terms of Service wherever we have content, even simple promotional content. It’s why, prior to the change, that we had still photos on our Facebook page, but no video. We may be bringing the dance world full on into...

Just a quick programming note: Marc Kirschner, General Manager of TenduTV, will be participating in a panel discussion on the implications of digital opportunities for screendance artists at the Dance for Camera festival, Walter Reade Theater, this Saturday at 4pm. The panel will be followed by a townhall...

Photo: Gasolinealleyantiques.com Evidently, the Mayor of Batman, a city in Southeastern Turkey, was extremely upset to find out that a comic book character had stolen his town’s name, and is now considering suing Warner Bros for damages. Warner produced the Batman movies, and their sister company,...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has come out in support of the McCain camp’s attempt to pressure YouTube to exempt campaign ads from takedown notices. The brunt of their complaint is two-fold: first, that they are limiting free speech on the internet, especially given that not all of the clips...

The McCain campaign has petitioned YouTube for special treatment related to copyright infringement and videos the campaign posts on the web. Both the McCain and Obama camps frequently post copywritten material onto YouTube from other sources, such as newscasts and interviews. Just as frequently, the...

After threatening to throw out the baby, the bathtub and the bathwater, while giving the mother a swift kick in the shins for good measure, Apple emerged victorious as the Copyright Royalty Board froze digital publishing rates at 9.1 cents per song. Music publishers had requested an increase to 15 cents...

It appears that Nintendo is already starting to build the buzz for the successor to the highly successful Wii, currently being referred to as the Wii HD. An interesting highlight of the article is the massive rise in R&D that has taken place at Nintendo, especially in relation to what was spent developing...