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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture
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Date: 20 Apr 91 19:45:36 GMT
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In article <1991Apr20.125400.27471@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>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

	I made that mistake assuming that they hadn't gotten
permission on CompuServe and got blasted by the ICD rep. The
permission is VERY cheap.
	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.