ananias Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 I sent a small flat panel TV and a video iPod stuffed with about 170 shorts, movies, and TCM featurettes to my son-in-law in Iraq and he claims the theraputic value is astounding. He likes the movies from the 30s and 40s most. I capture them using an EyeTV and compress them using the default export to iPod option. The average movie is about 600Mb (1% of a 60GB ipod.) In any event, I'm wondering if making a few more of these systems and giving them away to some of the troops there could get me into trouble legally for distributing copies of TCMs programming. I'd really much rather see TCM do this themselves. I greatly appreciate the station and don't want to do anything they'd rather I didn't. Ideally, they would add an area to their website that allowed anyone to donate money to be used to buy a display and iPod, load it up with selected programming, and ship it off to a soldier in Iraq. TCM could no doubt get a better price on the iPods, TVs, and probably a great tax deduction for the overhead costs of administering the program. Anyone have any suggestions for how I should proceed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vallo13 Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 ananias, Great Idea, Right below your post on the bottom of the page there is a "Contact us" blog, try writing to TCM. good Luck and welcome aboard. vallo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ananias Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 Thanks, I just did. I'll let you know what they say. By the way, is there an episode list for Cartoon Alley anywhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vallo13 Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Click the "Month Schedule" section and scroll down to Cartoon Alley for this months cartoons. vallo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonParker Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Not to rain on your parade, but what you're doing is copyright violation. I'm guessing that if TCM does give you an answer, it will be a flat no. That's not a criticism of them, it's what they have to do. If it's something you need to do, then try not to post on message boards about it. : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Ananais, You might have more luck with an actual letter sent to TCM higher ups about your idea, perhaps someone in Public Relations or a VP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ananias Posted May 2, 2006 Author Share Posted May 2, 2006 I'm pretty sure sending him my iPod isn't copyright violation. I'm not even sure making copies for some of his friends is illegal since they wouldn't be paying for them. But I'm not so sure about that. I don't see why you believe TCM will be unwilling to either sell or give me a license to distribute their movies on some small number of iPods to soldiers in Iraq. Perhaps I'm just unreasonably optimistic. BTW, have you actually seen a movie compressed onto an iPod and played back on a TV set via a cable? It's pretty close to live TV in quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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