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Filmustage leverages AI to break down film scripts, create shooting schedules and more

TechCrunch

First launched in 2020, the platform is designed to streamline pre-production in the film industry using a variety of features, such as the ability to break down scripts in a few minutes and categorize them into scenes and elements like props, costumes and characters. It can then be uploaded as a PDF file or into Final Draft.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books.

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What exactly is the Jodorowsky’s Dune crypto collective trying to make, anyway?

The Verge

Their plans included an animated series inspired by Jodorowsky’s Dune , and as any good collector likely knows, buying a commemorative copy of a script or storyboard doesn’t give you the right to shoot your own version. Buying Dune’s script doesn’t give you the copyright — but it earns you lots of publicity.

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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

Candid

Make video part of your broader content workflow Consider how video script writing can fit into the broader way you create content. This can mean creating a video that gets expanded into a blog or shortening a blog into a video script. It started as a 90-second video script. We tie our videos to our blog posts.

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QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers

TechCrunch

Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube’s royalty-free music library. ” Copyright issues.

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Lord of the Rings keycap sets will transport your keyboard to Middle-earth

The Verge

That means that along with full keyboards in both Tengwar (the Elvish script) and Dwarven runes, there’s also a plethora of novelty keys featuring key iconography from Middle-earth, including Eye of Sauron escape keys, One Ring-branded command keys, and more. One keyboard to rule them all.

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Miramax sues Quentin Tarantino over Pulp Fiction NFTs

The Verge

Miramax accuses him of violating the company’s copyright and trademark, and it’s demanding a halt to the upcoming sale. The proposed sale of a few original script pages or scenes as an NFT is a one-time transaction, which does not constitute publication,” the lawsuit says.

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