Good LORD this afternoon is going slowly. Could someone feed the hamster in the time-passage generator? I think it's gone to sleep.
I second this motion.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Sep 29, 2006 9:06:02 am PDT #1129 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Lee - Sep 29, 2006 9:07:28 am PDT #1130 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Good LORD this afternoon is going slowly.
Sigh
I haven't even made it to afternoon yet.
amych - Sep 29, 2006 9:10:08 am PDT #1131 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
IANAL, but I have to say no to deal with questions like this all the time, so here's my understanding. (But ask a real lawyer if you need a real opinion!)
Can a college theatre department sell (at a prophet) videos of past productions of non-original material-- that is, the production is riginal and we paid for rights to put it on, but the playwright is still alive?
When you paid for the performance rights, there was a contract (which may have just been the form that you filled out and signed) that specified just what you could and couldn't do: I'd be amazed if your right to make money off the play extended to anything beyond the original run. I expect that (as an educational institution) you could make a good case for showing them to future classes and the like, but not for making money from them.
It seems to me no, but that if we are just asking for fees for materials to make copies for the cast or something, then it is OK?
Legally, still probably not okay, but practically speaking, I can't imagine anyone enforcing it if you do it for the actual cost of a tape. Making money is another matter, and I really doubt they'd care if it was being sold to a cast member if they decided they wanted to be dickish about it.
How about on-line streaming of entire productions (not exerpts for advertising purposes)?
Not without the copyright holder's permission. Again, that's something that's likely to be addressed when you bought the rights.
erikaj - Sep 29, 2006 9:10:47 am PDT #1132 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Aw, Hec, cute photo. And filled with love for your tag, even as I'm tempted to tell the San Francisco cocksucker to speak for his fuckin' self, new father or not.
Jessica - Sep 29, 2006 9:12:25 am PDT #1133 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
::looks in time-passage generator, sees skeleton of hamster::
Well, damnit. We're gonna need a new hamster.
tommyrot - Sep 29, 2006 9:13:37 am PDT #1134 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, damnit. We're gonna need a new hamster.
Or maybe one of those little hyper dogs....
Aims - Sep 29, 2006 9:14:38 am PDT #1135 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
sends Ollie
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2006 9:25:07 am PDT #1136 of 10001
brillig
Or maybe a crew of three-year-olds to power the wheel. It's dead as doornails over here, too. They've given us wireless headsets, so the entire tech support staff is wandering around peering over each other's cubicle walls.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2006 9:32:42 am PDT #1137 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My wireless headset is crap. It's fine for listening in, but no one can hear me speak. I need another one, stat. Those suckers are addictive.
tommyrot - Sep 29, 2006 9:33:22 am PDT #1138 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.