Business and Legal Aspects of Sports and Entertainment
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Using the One-Box Search Bar
Search for a particular topic using the search bar. For example, enter blacklist into the search bar and select Just Search For. Historically, the blacklist refers to a list of people in the entertainment industry who were barred by studios from employment because of their real or imagined Communist party membership or sympathies. The blacklist affected the lives of actors, screenwriters, directors, and producers working (or attempting to work) in Hollywood from 1946 until the 1960s. But today, Hollywood has a different blacklist (no, not James Spader's NBC show): the Black List is an annual industry survey of the most-liked unproduced screenplays. Since its founding in 2005, more than 400 of these unmade scripts have been turned into movies, including Academy Award winners Little Miss Sunshine, The King's Speech, and The Imitation Game.
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About Venn Diagram Search
In the Main Search Bar tab, we learned about the different facets we can use to narrow and sort our results. But what if we are building a search of multiple terms to learn about a topic and having difficulty calling up the kind of results we want? HeinOnline's new Venn Diagram Search offers a visual representation of how search terms interact with each other to help users both refine their current search terms and become better researchers going forward.
Let's explore Venn Diagram Search using one of the movie industry's most well-known properties: James Bond. Did you know that the Bond franchise has a long and convoluted copyright controversy that originates before Ian Fleming's spy ever stood in a gun barrel on the silver screen? Cases about who owns Bond, and therefore who can make movies with the character, have been in the courts for more than thirty years. We can learn about this controversy with BLASE and, specifically, Venn Diagram Search.
Searches are constructed by stringing together multiple terms separated by the Boolean operator "AND," with phrases grouped together in quotation marks. Let's search for "james bond" AND copyright AND sony. While today Sony owns MGM/UA, the studio that originally released the Bond films, prior to that Sony had been part of litigation since the 1990s over the film rights to Bond. Our search will bring up 72 results in the diagram.
The results displayed on the right side of the page pertain to the search as we originally constructed it (represented by the red slice in the center of the intersecting circles). If we're interested in the results in the other circles, select Clear for the ability to hover over the different segments of the diagram. Once Clear is clicked, the seventy-two results will vanish from the right side of the page. Now as users hover over the diagram they will see all possible search term combinations from our original query. In our example, we can see results for "james bond" AND copyright, "james bond" AND sony, sony AND copyright, or "james bond," copyright and sony individually. Click one of these highlighted circles or intersections to explore their results. For example, we can change our search to see the 137 results for "james bond" AND copyright by clicking that slice of the diagram. Sort the results, save or export them, turn to the specific page of a result, or start at the beginning of a given title.
Tools like Venn Diagram can help refine your searching techniques going forward, allowing you to yell "cut!" and wrap filming on production faster.