Maria Schneider: Celebs Rumors

The big Content ID legal battle being led by musician Maria Schneider is over. Plaintiffs in the long-running litigation dismissed their action on Sunday – the day before a trial was due to begin – after the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court declined to intervene on an earlier decision by the judge overseeing the case to deny it class action status.Schneider and others argued that YouTube does not do enough to help independent creators to stop the unlicensed distribution of their content on the video site.

Ben Croll Jessica Palud’s showbiz drama “Being Maria” reframes the short career and tragic life of “Last Tango in Paris” star Maria Schneider in a post-#MeToo light. “Happening” breakout Anamaria Vartolomei plays Schneider, while Matt Dillon takes on the role of her co-star Marlon Brando. Currently in post-production and aiming for a festival premiere later this year, the film in part tracks the controversial production and wrenching fallout of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 masterpiece — a landmark that made Schneider an icon while locking her into a sexualized image she never could escape.

A US judge seemed to indicate last week that he isn’t convinced that an ongoing legal battle over who has access to YouTube’s Content ID system should be certified as a class action.This all relates to the lawsuit originally filed by musician Maria Schneider. She, and other independent creators, take issue with the fact that – while bigger copyright owners and content aggregators get access to YouTube’s Content ID rights management system – independent creators and smaller rights owners do not.They either have to ally with a bigger entity that has Content ID access, or manually file takedown notices in relation to any videos uploaded to YouTube that contain music or other copyright protected material without licence.

The Californian judge overseeing the class action lawsuit being pursued by musician Maria Schneider against YouTube has again said that he doesn’t feel it would be appropriate to dismiss the case via summary judgement, reckoning there are key questions that can only be answered at trial.Schnieder’s lawsuit argues that – while YouTube has its Content ID rights management system to help large-scale copyright owners manage the use and posting of their content by the Google-owned service’s users – for independent creators who don’t have access to that system it’s impossible to monitor and manage the unlicensed use of their work on the video platform.And, she adds, the manual takedown systems offered by YouTube to those independent creators are not sufficient, which means the Google site is not fulfilling its obligations to enjoy safe harbour protection from liability for the copyright infringement on its platform.There have been plenty of twists and turns in this dispute, not least because Schneider was originally joined by a co-plaintiff who then had to drop out after being accused of some dodgy dealings in his attempts to get access to Content ID.Throughout YouTube has been trying to get the litigation dismissed, often arguing that Schneider does in fact have access to Content ID via her distributor, and that her music industry business partners had actually provided licences covering her music.However, generally the judge overseeing the case, James Donato, has knocked back those dismissal requests, including earlier this summer when he said that YouTube’s arguments in favour of dismissal were “unavailing” and “not well taken”.According to Law360, there was another hearing on the case last week.

“Last Tango In Paris,” the 1973 erotic drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, led to two Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Actor for Marlon Brando and became one of the most profitable foreign films to ever be released. It is also an NC-17 release, features a brutal rape scene, and has largely been known as one of the most controversial films ever made, on and off the screen, thanks to the terrible conditions under which it was made.

Naman Ramachandran The tumultuous events surrounding the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1973 film “Last Tango in Paris” will be the subject of a limited series to be co-directed by Lisa Brühlmann (“Killing Eve”) and José Padilha (“Narcos”).The series, titled “Tango,” is part of the international first-look agreement between CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures, an independent entertainment media company founded by former Warner Bros.

Last Tango In Paris is getting its own The Offer-style making of drama series.

The back and forth continues between musician Maria Schneider and YouTube in the legal battle over who gets access to the latter’s Content ID rights management system.Schneider claims that while Content ID may be a pretty decent rights management platform – allowing YouTube to comply with its obligations under US law to deal with copyright infringing content uploaded by its users – only the biggest rights-owners and distributors are granted access to the technology.Independent creators like herself, Schneider then argues, are obliged to manually issue takedown requests if their content appears on the YouTube platform, and YouTube’s manual takedowns process is, she claims, pretty damn shoddy.This whole case went on a quite a detour, of