From: qdny@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Club president needs help with dub policy
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:28:27 EST
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cornell University

This is a request to those who have been active in the anime fan 
community for longer than I (not hard) to send me some comments on 
club tape copying policies.  I am in particular looking for 
official, written club policy statements, but I'd also be happy to 
hear from long-time fans with some experience on this issue.

THE SITUATION:

- Cornell Japanese Animation Society (CJAS) has been around for 
about 5 years now, but only recently has it started moving away from 
strong centralized control and moving towards more active 
participation by club members.  One of the results of our change is 
that ever more members are becoming interested in a wide variety of 
projects.

- CJAS, right now, has only a token constitution written simply to 
satisfy university requirements so that we can receive funding from 
the pool of money handed out to campus organizations.  (Most of our 
funds received have gone straight towards Animeigo tapes, by the 
way...)  It has become clear to the current management that a more 
rigorous constitution will be needed to serve as at least a loose 
guide for future years.  I believe that part of what needs to go 
into this constitution is a club policy statement on tape dubbing.

- A couple of our members are presently proposing a scheme which is, 
in effect, a Cornell-local version of what the LDTO was before it 
became "Introtech".  In other words, sell taped copies of personal 
(not club-owned) LD's and put the profits towards buying more 
(personal) LD's, with the system thus supporting itself.  The fact 
that I have members proposing this DEFINITELY suggests CJAS needs a 
club dubbing policy statement.

Now, please don't stop now and flame me, because I'm intentionally 
trying to be neutral in this post.  I have some pretty strong 
opinions myself, but I don't really want to go playing dictator and 
imposing my will on CJAS.


THE HELP I NEED:

If you're active in a club which has a written statement on tape 
dubbing, or something related to this issue, I'd be in your debt if 
you could type it in and email it to me.  I'm sure some of the 
longer-lived fan organizations on the west coast must have this sort 
of thing in writing, right?  Or, if you're an officer of an anime 
club and you have personal experience or opinions on the topic, your 
guidance would be appreciated.  We've also got people here on the 
net who've been anime fans since before I was learning how to 
multiply fractions, so if you think you fall into this category and 
want to offer advice to the relative newcomers, please feel free to 
write me something.

I realize RAA has just come out of a copying flamewar, and I'm not 
interested in starting anything up again.  Please EMAIL responses to 
me.  If you're in a flaming mood, consider posting to /dev/null 
instead of the net. :)

If there are requests for it, I will post a summary to the net.  
However, to protect privacy, I will not maintain permanent softcopy 
of any of the comments I receive, and I won't repost or forward 
anyone's comments unless you specifically give me permission to do 
so.  Thanks in advance for any help offered.  Your comments will 
help to form part of our constitution, which will hopefully set the 
guidelines for CJAS for many years in the future.


Bruce Hahne
President, Cornell Japanese Animation Society.
  internet: bruce@atto.ee.cornell.edu
  bitnet:   qdny@crnlvax5

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- Lum, preparing yet another lightning blast.