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Copywrongs

By Pat Aufderheide

Budding filmmaker Jonathan Caouette spent$218 to make a movie on his Macintosh about his dysfunc-tional family, Tarnation. It went to Cannes and was released in theaters. But because the film interwove images of his family with many references to popular culture—each of which had to be cleared with the copyright owners—the film ended up costing $400,000. Getting a copy of Eyesreturn to article

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