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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture
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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 09:53:37 GMT

In article <1991Apr20.065435.17965@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>See, usable raw material (that is, movie/sound samples with copy rights) will
>be one important factor in I-TV.  This is partly why CD-I backers acquired
>Polygram, Columbia, MCA and so on.  Not just for CD-I, but for future
>interactive projects not yet announced, or perhaps even thought of.
>
	Getting rights to those materials is VERY easy. Go to
AmiExpo. There were companies showing clips from Back to the
Future III, Predator and Total Recall. That stuff is cheap to do.
You don't think IVS and ICD are "big money" companies?
	And I know that they were just showing, not selling. But
I doubt that Polygram, Columbia, MCA, etc. are going to give
stuff for free to CD-I either. Most likely both sets of people
will pay about the same.
	-- Ethan

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