30 Jan
2007
30 Jan
'07
10:42 p.m.
At 09:12 PM 1/30/2007, you wrote:
It's all in how and who you ask. You have to find
the right person, not
just deal with a shill, and you have to ask professionally, not just as a
hobbyist. That's been my experience with this sort of thing. For example,
HP gave me permission to reprint Gordon Dickson's story called "Thank you,
Beep" from the 1978 issue of the HP Calculator Digest -- even though it's
going to be part of a book that I'm writing, which is clearly a commercial
endeavor -- because I found the right person and I asked nicely. They
simply required is that I include some boilerplate copyright text as shown
here: http://www.snarc.net/pda/tybeep.htm.
Sometimes asking as a hobbiest can help. I did this once with a company
that produces a commedy TV show. I e-mailed the president of the company
and told him I wanted to put some segments on a DVD.
He FedExed me a Digital Betacam dub of the masters of the show.
Of course, I've also tried to deal with music labels.
I keep the Digital betacam tape next to me to remind me that there are
still humans in the world (unlike ALL of labeled music).
I only use independent music in my DVDs. : )
Grant