Well, I'm sitting here quietly selling jigsaw puzzles, and someone in California orders one express "for use in a student film". Then someone in Prague orders three, express, and the address is Something Film Productions. Then today my email from Hollywood arrives. (Look, I absolutely *never* exaggerate, right?) So Columbia Pictures want to use these puzzles on the set, and can I put them in touch with the copyright holders. Yes I can, but I wonder if I shouldn't seek a little commission for bridging the communication gap. While wondering, I also wondered if anyone had any practical ideas on things like this - very roughly what sort of royalties does anyone expect to pay on incidental use of a picture: after all, it's only a prop on the set. I can't conceive that when someone reads a newspaper on the screen they're expected to pay Reuters, the newspaper publisher, and the advertiser in the corner, but rational conception is of very little help in guessing the workings of the copyright mindset. If you have any ideas on ball-park figures -$100, $1000, $10000, or $10^n for any integer n, it would help if you mentioned how many times you have _actually_ received a royalty fee on this kind of use. Anyway, grateful for any suggestions. Brian Chandler ---------------- geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 Jigsaw puzzles from Japan at: http://imaginatorium.org/shop/
