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From: menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore already has THE BEST AD for MultiMedia!!
Message-ID: <1990Oct20.142357.3853@CAM.ORG>
Date: 20 Oct 90 14:23:57 GMT
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swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:

>In article <1990Oct17.165611.21133@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>May I decry the bonehead stupidity of forbidding dealers from handing
>>out copies?  WHAT HAS COMMODORE GOT AGAINST FREE ADVERTISING?  Is your

>The reason they can't distribute it is because it contains copyrighted
>material that the copyright owners allowed (after the fact) to be used
>in-store only, with the provision that it would not be copied or distributed.
>It was put together in a big rush for the A3000 launch, and all the i's
>were not dotted, nor the t's crossed.

	I'd certainly like to know what *version* of the multimedia demo
	we're up to now. The big flashy one that I saw at the launch of 
	the A3000, here in Montreal, contained material of mine that was
	not only heavily copyrighted but also exclusively licenced (for
	a fee) for use in another companies tv advertizing campaign. When
	I expressed my displesure (the use of copyrighted material without
	permission and in particular this material 'cause 1> it was licenced
	and 2> I had asked C= if I could borrow a harddrive for a couple
	of weeks to make this specific animation and was denied it) to
	C= Reps at the launch and their remarks were 1> "we really like
	your work and thought you would appreciate the *free* advertizing :-)
	(yes, it was wasn't it) and 2> " if you ever need some help again,
	make an official request and we'll get help to you".
		Well, I did make an *official request for some help a few
	weeks after that, directly to this C= official and four months
	later I got my *official refusal* of any help whatsoever! Nice
	guys eh!
		Curiously enough, though, I did get a call from C= 's
	New York ad agency a couple of weeks after the A3000 launch. They
	wanted my permission to use a specific scene from an animation of
	mine for a multimedia demo that they *were making*. I told them
	that they would first have to clear it with the company I had licenced
	it to, and then speak to me ( don't forget, C= was promising me 
	official help at this time). Well, I never heard back.
		SOOOO, if you happen to see a "big refracted, ray-traced 
	wave roll by, near the end of one of these *in-store* multi-media
	demos (or any other work of mine being used for commercial demos)
	please let me know 'cause I'm now ready to......

>Commodore would get sued big-time if they started giving away copies of
		
	....yes, thats the word..sue.

>that multimedia demo.

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