[TheForge] Re: ABANA rental library

[lama]

Andrew, that is a generous offer and well received by me, but
I am not the guy to talk to. The biggest problem that leaps to mind
is that of copyright issues. The people that ABANA (or anyone else)
buys their videos from, are not going to let us (or anyone else) sell
their copyrighted material. You could start a nice little business by
contacting the "owners" of the copyrighted material and offering to
make DVD's for them to sell, or obtaining permission from the owners
to use their material for a royalty payment from each one that you sell.
......darn, I just gave away another million dollar idea.
dave m

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Vida" <osan@netlabs.net>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: ABANA rental library
(snip)

> This was going to be my response to the initial post.  DVD burners
> are cheap, and rather than rent the "tapes", just sell them.  Cheap.
> Cost plus some small percentage and postage.  They are smaller and
> cheaper to mail, and you don't have to keep track of them once they
> are out the door.  It would cut the overhead by a large degree and
> folks can build libraries of their own.  It's a win-win.
> 
> In fact, I'll make ABANA a deal.  If they send me masters, I will
> burn DVD masters from them and return everything if they will pick
> up the postage and perhaps the material cost for the disks (I know
> DVD blanks are not nearly as cheap as CDs).  I can do them in small
> lots.  Send 5 tapes, get them back, sigh in relief, send 5 more, or
> whatever they would feel comfortable with.  Just a thought.
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