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December 01, 2005
Stacking the Rolodex: don't piss off the little guy
Variety reports on a little guy who's gotten peevish with the big guys: "An Oregon blogger named Gerard Jones has compiled a list of thousands of agents, producers and execs on a Web site called... EveryoneWhosAnyone.com, complete with client lists, email addresses and phone numbers." Disingenuosuly, Steven Zeitchick then adds, "it's impossible to quantify how many have visited the site, but the info has been a boon for aspiring screenwriters..." some of whom, it must be noted, might have read Daily Variety this morning. Universal is among the studios who have complained even before Variety's broadcasting of the link, along with "the Weinstein Co., CAA and others, all of whom have asked that the listings be removed.
"Jones has so far declined, and all the names and contact info remain up on the site. In fact, Jones has in some cases posted the requests and poked fun at them... It's far more user-friendly than print periodicals like Studio Directory. It's also free... "I'm just turning the Hollywood system on its ear. Don't advertise to me if you don't want me advertising to you," he told Daily Variety. The site highlights the ability of private citizens, with the help of Google, to pull the veil off closed media worlds like Hollywood. While posting personal contact information hasn't always been condoned by the courts, data that can be divined by the public tends to fall under the First Amendment."
Posted by pride at December 1, 2005 09:26 AM
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