[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Walter.

Can I throw into the mix by suggesting that non-competes are not only about clients. I know of a couple of very “advanced” people that also get freelancers/assistants to sign that they wont use or pass on any of the techniques that they are taught or shown whilst in their employment/under contract.

Obviously this a very grey area, but if you have spend years perfecting a certain process or filming technique etc – why not?

All the Best
Mads
London, UK

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Scott.

One of the ways that the film-labs (used – before digital) to make most of their money was by storing the film and running copies of it when-ever needed – there should be no reason for why you can’t do the same for your clients. After all, it is a cost to your firm and a safety for them.

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Mads
London, UK

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Mike.

Nope, agree, it is never worth going to court.

A thought; one could risk someone asking the Director of the NGO “Who did that bad encoding job?” – is she going to say, my in-house AV person or name the production company?
Peter has every right to make sure that his productions are displayed properly, even if the client doesn’t appreciate the service offered.

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Mads
London, UK

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Peter.

Join the queue, I am already taking up one judges time full time, so why not – btw: I misquoted Ron, that won’t go to court, but I won’t enter dark streets either, the Cowdog might just bite me ;-D

I had a similar situation last year with an in between production company that on top of running from their bill sold me down the river to their end client for their mistakes (very BIG end-client). To make the story short, I subsequently through another third party went back and did another job for the end client, which ended very, very well and put me in the frame for their next job – so there is plenty of different ways of saying “thank you” – maybe you should contact a local competing “charitable quango”, and do a job that is so memorable that the rest of the community can not avoid using you for future projects?

Don’t get mad – get even!

All the Best
Mads
London, UK

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Peter, Hey Mike.

I am based in the UK too.

Firstly, I would not have given anything away for free to start with – not without attaching some kind of value to it.

Secondly, “Local Public Body” – are they NGO, government or? In any case, the boss must have a bigger boss, who again has an even bigger boss – I would send a CD-Rom with the flv to the chairman and point out that you got “fired” for offering to do a proper job for free and that if you had wanted to, you could’ve pushed for credits through the courts and thereby creating an embarrassment for all parties involved, including the chairman (For all we know, the person trying to rip your DVD in the first place, could be the secret lover of the boss and the new video producer of the organisation? ;-). At least you’re owed an apology for being nice.

Also, supply the communication (hopefully you have an email) where the client specifies the 20 DVD’s. I.e. you never had an agreement of using it on-line or for any other purpose than the 20 DVD’s.

Finally – shop them to the MCPS, Directors Guild, Bectu and who-ever else might want to black-list them – maybe not, just move forward and forget about these guys.

But seriously, as Ron says with his Grinders speech, this went wrong when you pulled your trousers down at the first meeting.

All the Best
Mads
London, UK

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

[Proper Modulation] “feels like it was designed by a “one man show” type of user”
That is correct; one early TV-Show adaptor of XD-CAM with a 1,000 disks, a big server and several producers, found to their “annoyance” that the PDZ software would only deal with 1 tape-number which I seem to remember as being “001”.

All the Best
Mads
London

Mac Million Ltd. – HD Production & Editing