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From: "heritage63" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Taping and sale of speakers' lectures
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:27:12 -0400
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Marie,
Some of these devices fit in your pocket. Better than nothing!
Many of us who can't make it to conferences would gladly pay for recordings
of your presentations, with copies of your handouts.
Barbara
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] Taping and sale of speakers' lectures
> I've just arrived in SLC for the FGS conference, carrying my laptop and my
> husband carrying my projector. Short of adding another husband there is no
> way the airlines will let me carry yet another piece of equipment.
>
> Marie
>
>
> Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CGRS, CGL
> Melchiori Research Services
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> CGRS, Certified Genealogical Records Specialist and CGL, Certified
> Genealogical Lecturer are service marks of the Board for Certification of
> Genealogists, used under license by Board-certified associates after
> periodic competency evaluations.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: heritage63 <>
> To:
> Sent: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 21:32:08 -0400
> Subject: Re: [APG] Taping and sale of speakers' lectures
>
>
> I'm not a speaker, but have any of you thought of buying your own
> recorders and recording your own presentations? With the new digital
> technology, it's fairly simple and inexpensive to record to a digital
> device and then upload it to your computer where you can add introductory
> information, etc., and edit the content. You can then burn the
> presentation to CD or DVD and offer it for sale. You could advertise
> through your professional organizations or your own web site, and you
> could include an order form with your presentation handouts at the
> conference. You could even sell them on eBay! If you don't have time to
> produce your own CD/DVDs, you could hire someone else to produce them. If
> you don't have time to fill orders, perhaps you could contract with one of
> the genealogical booksellers to sell them for you.
>
> I haven't used these recorders, so I don't know about their speech
> quality. Perhaps someone else on this list with more experience with these
> devices might offer further insight into how they work and whether voice
> quality would be adequate.
>
> A Google search for 'digital conference tape recorder' turned up a lot of
> sites. Following are a couple of them. The following site advertises
> recorders for conferences and meetings:
> http://www.soniclear.com/Enterprise.html.
>
> Here is another site that does on-site conference recording and has your
> presentation ready for sale at the conference.
> http://www.fltwood.com/onsite/.
>
> After reading this very long thread, it seems any suggestions are better
> than what you have now!
>
> Barbara O'Nan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mills" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 6:14 PM
> Subject: RE: [APG] Taping and sale of speakers' lectures
>
>> Ann wrote:
>>
>>>Maybe they [GSU] truly thought they were doing the genealogical world a
>> favor by
>> providing a way for the lectures to be taped.>
>>
>>
>> Perhaps that was the thought, Ann. However, underwriting a firm that >
>> refuses
>> to pay for the work-product it sells is no "favor" to those who labor to
>> produce that work product and invest heavily in its development. Nor is
>> it > a
>> favor to the conference sponsors who cannot afford to meet those same >
>> terms
>> in future years.
>>
>> The lectures we all value involve a two-part process. Taping, alone, does
>> not get those lectures into the hands of those who can benefit from them.
>> That distribution involves *sales.* GSU will not be handling the sales. >
>> GSU
>> has no contract with speakers. Yet speakers are being told that their
>> introductions must honor the terms of the GSU contract with RP.
>>
>> Speakers have also been told that RP will sell their taped work and that
>> they will be given a contract to relinquish to RP the right to sell their
>> work. Less than 48 hours before the conference starts, speakers have no
>> inkling of what RP's unilaterally written agreement will require.
>>
>> What *is* known is that (1) the firm with which GSU has contracted has
>> for
>> years refused to pay speakers by the terms of the 1990 GCC Genealogical
>> Speakers' Taping Agreement that governed our engagement of that firm as
>> conference tapers beginning in 1991; and (b) the firm with which GSU has
>> contracted has refused to sign off on the good-faith agreement it made by
>> teleconference in June with the major conference sponsors (NGS and FGS) >
>> and
>> the speakers representatives (GSCPC and the Guild).
>>
>> Moreover, the sales procedure that GSU has approved (without the
>> participation of the societies who actually sponsor our conferences or
>> the
>> speakers who deliver the lectures) enables the taping firm to continue to
>> obscure how many of our tapes it is selling; and GSU's action has enabled
>> that firm to avoid the accountability proceedings it agreed to in the
>> June
>> negotiations.
>>
>> Given that you work for RP at its booth during conferences, perhaps you >
>> can
>> give us some insight into that side of it?
>>
>> Elizabeth
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG, Chair
>> Genealogical Speakers Copyright Protection Committee
>>
>>
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