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From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
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Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture
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Date: 20 Apr 91 12:54:00 GMT
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es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>>See, usable raw material (that is, movie/sound samples with copy rights) will
>>be one important factor in I-TV.
>
>	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.

I'd be pretty surprised if those companies had obtained any rights on those.
More likely, they just crossed their fingers and hoped they weren't caught :-)

Or did they say they had gotten permission?  thx! - kev