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Friday, May 18, 2007
My Blueberry Nights Trailer
The trailer for this year’s Cannes opener has gone online. Kar Wai Wong’s first English speaking film stars singer Norah Jones as a woman who takes a soul-searching trip across America and meets lots of interesting characters including Law, Natalie Portman, Tim Roth and David Strathairn. There’s huge interest in this film over at the Cannes festival, and unfortunately, the trailer is nice but unyielding, so don’t expect to get too excited.
Final Transformers Trailer
And it’s looking very cool. Typical Michael Bay fashion, there’s a lot of nice explosions and tasty effects, but best of all, there’s that vintage Transforming noise from the cartoon. Which made me wish I had Autobots bedsheets again. However, why aren’t any of the Transformers talking? Has the recent lip-gate scandal encouraged Bay to write in some robot vow of silence?
Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments
Yahoo has been accused of censorship on its popular photo website Flickr, in a row that has highlighted the issue of copyright in the online age. 
Flickr is one of the most popular photo-sharing sites
Earlier this month photographer Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir discovered that seven of her pictures were reportedly being sold by a UK-based online gallery.
She raised the issue on Flickr but a photo and comments were deleted.
Yahoo, which had no involvement in the row over the sale of the photos, has now apologised for its "mistake".
According to Ms Gudleifsdóttir, online gallery Only Dreemin sold 60 prints of seven of her photos, for more than £2,500, without her consent.
No-one from gallery Online Dreemin was available for comment.
Ms Gudleifsdóttir owns the copyright to all of her photos on Flickr and the website clearly states that people cannot use them without permission.
Withdrew photos
The gallery withdrew the photos for sale but refused to compensate her, she said.
Ms Gudleifsdóttir posted a new photograph on Flickr to highlight her problem with the gallery and received more than 450 comments of support from other users.
But that post was removed by Flickr staff on the grounds it could "harass, abuse, impersonate, or intimidate others".
Ms Guðleifsdóttir said Flickr had also threatened to terminate her account.
The fact remains that they made a profit off my work when they had absolutely no right to 
Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir
"Freedom of expression? Telling the truth? Not popular with Flickr administration, apparently," she wrote on her blog.
The co-founder of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield, has now apologised.
"We screwed up and for that I take full responsibility," he said.
He added: "It's important to be clear why the photo was deleted: it had nothing to do with a desire to silence Rebekka from calling attention to the outfit which had reportedly sold copies of her photos without knowledge or permission and without compensating her.
"This had nothing to do with fear of a lawsuit, but with deeply held beliefs about the kind of place we want Flickr to be. Unfortunately, those beliefs were misapplied in this case, but we still hold the general principle to be true."
He said Flickr had removed the comments because there was "personal information of the infringing company's owner and suggestions for how best to exact revenge".
Ms Gudleifsdóttir told BBC News that the gallery had told her they had bought the photos from a third party for £3,000 in good faith and had been shown "official looking documents".
"When my lawyer requested that they send a copy of these documents, to prove that this transaction had indeed taken place, we heard no more from them," she said.
"If I had decided to proceed further with this case, my next move would have been to hire a UK-based lawyer to take them to court. I however did not feel able to do this, as I simply don't have the money needed to pay for it."
She said she had been left feeling "extremely frustrated" by the gallery and had been "offended" by Flickr's initial reaction to her protest.
But she said she had now accepted Flickr's apology but would continue to campaign for compensation.
"The fact remains that they made a profit off my work when they had absolutely no right to," she said.
Parrot squawks on cheating lover's affair
A devastated Englishman learned the horrible truth that his girlfriend was cheating on him - straight from his pet parrot's mouth.
Chris Taylor's parrot Ziggy began squawking "Hiya, Gary" every time his girlfriend Suzy Collins's mobile phone rang.
The African Grey also made kiss noises each time it heard the name Gary on television or radio.
At first amused owner Mr Taylor, a computer programmer, dismissed it as something the bird had picked up watching TV.
But then he snuggled up beside Suzy on the sofa in their flat in Leeds and Ziggy cried out in Suzy's voice "I love you, Gary." The cat was finally out of the bag.
Call-center worker Ms Collins, 25, broke down in tears and confessed to having a four-month fling with a former colleague. She had met her lover in the flat while Ziggy looked on.
Her confession ended their two-year relationship. It also led to 30-year-old Mr Taylor parting company with his pet - because it kept screeching out her lover's name.
Mr Taylor wasn't sorry to see the back of Suzy after what she did, he said. But it really broke his heart to part with eight-year-old Ziggy which he had bought as a chick.
"I lost my girlfriend and best mate at the same time. But it was torture hearing him repeat that name Gary over and over," he said.
Mr Taylor named the parrot after Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie's alter ego. It learned to reproduce the line "Put on your red shoes and dance the blue!" from the Bowie song Let's Dance.
Ziggy has since found a new home with the help of a local parrot dealer.
Whatmore 'ready' if offered India job
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Dav Whatmore, the Bangladesh coach, says he has had "positive discussions" with Ravi Shastri, the Indian cricket manager, about the prospect of his taking the India job when his term with Bangladesh ends after the ongoing two-Test series.
"I had a short discussion with Ravi about taking up the job of coaching India and I have spoken in the affirmative," Whatmore told PTI. "The discussion centered round how interested I am. I am satisfied with the initial discussion. We are both satisfied. All I can say is I am ready for the challenge if the opportunity comes. I am ready to sink my teeth into the problems and find out a solution as the BCCI would want me to."
Six high-ranking BCCI officials, including president Sharad Pawar and secretary Niranjan Shah, were scheduled to arrive in Chittagong on Saturday to hold discussions with Whatmore.
India is one of the toughest coaching assignments with the publicity and the expectations but Whatmore said he was capable of working with 'star' players. "It's a question of man-management and how far one wants to take ones career forward and I have to deal with them individually if and when the time comes.
"I have had star material [to work with] always. When I coached Lancashire the first season was a disaster, but the second season was the best the county had in their entire cricketing history. And both the seasons they had nine of the England team players in the side and three overseas players who were stars too.
"Sri Lanka had players like Aravinda de Silva, Arjuna Ranatunga and [Asanka] Gurusinghe. They were big stars in their country. But I never found it difficult to handle them. What we tried to do was [ensure] that the practice sessions were meaningful. The tactical part was taken care of. The team meetings were exciting and vibrant. I was not the only one talking. That's the whole idea."
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