Nov 14, 2017
Craig and John open the overflowing listener mailbag to tackle questions on everything from montages to life rights to passive heroes. Plus, we have a definitive answer on whether to number minor characters. (Don’t.)
We also finally address a major controversy: Craig’s missing cover of “Killing the Blues” from Episode 109. It exists, and you can listen to it today.
The Scriptnotes 2017 Holiday Live Show will be December 7th in Hollywood. Mark your calendars! Tickets available soon.
Links:
* Team America: World Police’s defense of “Montage”
* NOLO’s
Getting Permission: Using & Licensing Copyright-Protected Materials
Online & Off, a handy legal guide for rights and rights
purchases.
* Cosmo
Kramer, from Seinfeld, is based on Kenny
Kramer, who
sued a writer for defamation
* James
Bond and the Berne
Convention
* Trademark,
Copyright,
and a snazzy
video on the difference between them from the USPTO.
* The
Copyright Term Extension Act, AKA the Sonny Bono Act, AKA the
Mickey Mouse Protection Act.
* Charles
Dickens’ struggle with piracy in the US is illuminated in
Fifty
Inventions that Shaped the Modern World by Tim Harford.
* Go’s
character, Spider Marine, comes from John’s mishearing the Smashing
Pumpkins lyric “despite all my
rage.”
* Craig’s cover of “Killing
the Blues,” by Rowland Salley.
* The South
Park video game, South Park: The
Fractured but Whole (a sequel to The Stick of
Truth) *all possible trigger warnings apply
* The Adelante Shoe Co.
makes shoes for the discerning global citizen.
* Next week’s episode is the 2017 Austin Live Three Page Challenge
-- you can check out the pages here or on Weekend Read.
* Matthew Chilelli’s video
about his definitely-not-haunted apartment in Japan
* The Scriptnotes Listeners’
Guide!
*
The USB drives!
* John August on
Twitter
* Craig Mazin on
Twitter
* John on
Instagram
* Find past episodes
* Outro by
Rowland sally, performed by Craig Mazin (send us yours!)
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
You can download the episode here.