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Ooooops
Someone’s going to be in trouble if they - they being the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - can figure things out. No doubt the MPAA boss Jack Valenti is working on it too.
A copy of Something’s Gotta Give "sent to an Oscar voter" has turned up online, "prompting a probe by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," says an Associated Press report here.
Last year, Valenti issued an edict stating firstly, that DVD screeners (movies sent to various movie insiders for various purposes, but definitely not for file sharing) should be banned.
But latterly, indie producers claimed Valenti’s ban was no more than a ploy to keep them out of the running for awards and US District Judge Michael B. Mukasey recently ruled that independent film producers had shown sufficient evidence that withholding the screeners violated antitrust law and hurts competition.
Be all of the above as it may, Bruce Davis, the academy’s executive director, declined to identify the Oscar member being investigated, says the AP report, going on:
"A telephone call was made to the member who said he would call back to explain the matter more fully, but the member never did, Davis said. The academy has sent a letter seeking an explanation for how the screener copy wound up on the Internet, but has not yet received an answer."
Sony Pictures Entertainment notified the academy last week about the online screener copy, but said they won’t make a decision "about pursing legal action" until the academy’s "probe" is completed, adds AP.
