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Listed below are comments made by dejanvul between Sunday, 28th June 2009 and Saturday, 4th July 2009.

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It Felt Like a Kiss - trail 4:49pm on 04 Jul 2009 @emile_henry
Thanks for your advices.
I obviously forgot to add: "...as some people already did with the previous works of Mr. Curtis - "The Trap", "The Power of Nightmares", "The Century of the Self", "The Mayfair Set" and "The Living Dead", all of them in integrum." I hope you now find your advices redundant a little bit? (Please, do imagine here a smiling emoticon, I don't like to insert them.)

I only wanted to make some possibly useful suggestions on the subject that Mr. Curtis himself mentioned at least once, 2005:

"The problem is that the films are full of archive film and music from a multitude of sources. The reason my series are normally not released on DVD is that it is prohibitively costly and a nightmare - no pun intended - to clear the rights. " (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4171213.stm)

Therefore, I've just asked in advance what is the main issue in the subject of rights' clearance, in order to not wasting anyone's time and space if my suggestions about the subject are useful as an extra head hole. My shame, but I discovered these words of Mr. Curtis after posting my previous comment here, so I apologize.
It Felt Like a Kiss - trail 12:35pm on 28 Jun 2009 Solution 1:
Of course there's no need to complain so much. I'm sure that there will be some UK citizen - not fond of copyright issues - who does have installed some within-UK produced open-source video-ripper and who will be very glad to use some UK-localized free video-editing software to shrink the resolution and then to send low-res versions of Mr. Curtis's clips and short movies to us, non-UK appreciators of Mr. Curtis's work - and, of course, to send them to us through his/her Yahoo mail with the UK extension. :)))
Generally speaking, if there's no solidarity in the world, we are doomed, aren't we? :)

Solution 2:
IMHO, it would be more appropriate than Solution 1 to put transcripts of clips and short movies on the same pages with them, hm? I suppose no one can find it "slam dunk" to undertake legal steps on copyright basis against described visuals? :)

Question:
Why Mr. Adam Curtis uses only BBC archive as a source? Because of the convenience, or the copyright matters, or the contract, or because of supposed high prices of potentially cooperating archives?

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