After I came back from the inauguration, I compiled my pictures into a short video using Sam Cooke’s “A Chang is Gonna Come” (which I own on vinyl, cd, and digital via iTunes) and uploaded it to Facebook, and Youtube. A few days later, Facebook and Youtube yanked my video or yanked the music from my little slideshow due to copyright infringement. Note I “own” the song in three various forms. I was not giving the song away, but playing with some pictures to share with my friends. If that is copyright infringement to put a song in a slideshow for friends, it must be copyright infringement for me to play the same song in my house, at work or at a beach for my friends, right?

Since I was introduced to the Robotech series back in high school, I have been a fan of Anime. From Cowboy Bebop to Dragonball Z to Akira to Ghost in a Shell to Samruai Champloo, I can’t get enough of the Japanese animated films. Last year, I discovered a new series that featured the voice of one ‘bad ass’ Samuel L. Jackson The one-off series was called Afro-Samurai.

Here at Needledrop, we are big fans of animation well at least just me. I especially love any animation that involves Tim Burton. On Septemebr 9, 2009, a movie by the name of “9″ will be released and it will be produced by Tim Burton and directed by Shane Acker. It is a film adaptation of this short animation film of the same name by Shane Acker who released his short animation film back in 2005 while he was a student.