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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Amiga animations on VHS now available
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Date: 27 May 90 08:18:20 GMT
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Today as promised, at the PAX Developers meeting I had the occasion of asking
Brad Schenk, the author of Sentinel and the winner of the last two Badge Demo
contests, his ideas about the status of his animations with respect to 
distributing them on VHS media instead of floppies.  

He pointed out that there is a difference between last year and this year rules
on Badge submissions. Last years' rules required public domain stuff, and as 
such he feels that what he submitted is public domain no matter what media is
used.  This year's rules did not require public domain, and he does not 
consider Sentinel to be public domain.  Note also that the lack of a copyright
notice on Sentinel does not make it public domain, due to the fact that this
item is no longer required to mantain copyright.  While he feels that his
animation can be freely redistributed on floppy media, he claims that NOBODY
has the right to use his animation on videotape compilations without his 
permission.

AmigaWorld asked for his permission to include Sentinel in the AW videotape.
In fact, he really does not have any problem in ALLOWING videotape versions,
as long as his release is sought and he can get some kind of assurance that 
his work is propely credited.

There you have it.

-- Marco
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