The planned break-up and sale at auction of the Polaroid Collection has many ramifications, none of them positive. With no pre-planning, in June 2009 this blog became action central in an eleventh-hour effort to save the collection. This effort continues. Links to pertinent posts in this blog, which in turn contain links to pertinent documents, news stories, and other related information, can be found here...
An interesting story that anyone concerned with intellectual property or the Petters case should read.
A. D. Coleman also had some kind words about the sketch-videos on this blog:
P.S. For coverage of the ongoing trial of Ponzi schemer Tom Petters, whose massive fraud has jeopardized the future of the Polaroid Collection, see the November 19, 2009 report by David Phelps of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Petters is charged with conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering, and faces a possible life sentence if convicted. Petters International, his holding company, acquired all the assets of the original Polaroid Corporation in 2004, then went belly-up in 2008. It sold off all of its Polaroid holdings at bargain-basement prices in April 2009 — everything except the Polaroid Collection, which the new purchasers excluded from the deal. If you want daily blow-by-blow accounts of the trial, go to Ken Avidor’s excellent blog, Petters Info. He actually sits in the courtroom every day and watches the prosecuting attorney deconstruct Petters, makes sketches of the proceedings, then assembles them into a video with voiceover that very evening. Something like a William Kentridge film. Great stuff.
