Interview With Nina Paley, at QuestionCopyright.org
I just spent weeks learning more than I ever wanted to know about the sorry state of video editing on Linux, but the result is worth it:
It's an in-depth interview with animator and cartoonist Nina Paley, whose award-winning, feature-length film Sita Sings The Blues cannot be distributed because of copyright restrictions.
She built the film around episodes from the Indian epic the Ramayana and songs recorded by torch singer Annette Hanshaw in the 1920s. The recordings are no longer in copyright jail, and the Ramayana never was, but the compositions are. Nina Paley is therefore expected to pay tens...