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New York-based editing boutique The Well has added senior editor Beth Cramer to its roster. She comes over from Red Car, New York and at press time was cutting a package of Advil spots ….Editor Sloane Klevin, formerly of Blue Rock, New York, has come aboard editorial/visual effects/design company Version2, New York. She has already taken on new projects for Macy’s, directed by Peggy Sirota of bicoastal HSI Productions, and a Yasmin clip, helmed by Maurice Marable of Brown Bag Films, New York. Klevin–who’s active in spots, videos, TV and features–is also a professor at Columbia University, teaching editing to its graduate film school. She was recently profiled in that educational light in SHOOT’s “Meet The Professor” column….Editor Mauro Camoroda, a freelancer for the last three years, has joined Crush Editorial, Santa Monica. Camoroda had earlier been on staff at Ntropic, San Francisco, and Crew Cuts, San Francisco….Andrew Hall has come aboard West Hollywood-based visual effects/design shop A52 as CG supervisor. He formerly served as visual effects/animation supervisor at CreoCollective. Earlier he was a feature film animation supervisor for Digital Domain, Venice, Calif…..Category:News
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More
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