UFO has a new copyright owner???

James, in response to your question about the ownership of UFO's
copyright, given the situation with the German banker, I contacted
Helen Weber, who contact Ed Bishop. His response is quite...
interesting!

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Gerry just told me that Phillip had acquired the rights from Carlton. He
did not go into detail. At this stage I don't feel I could approach Phillip
for any specific details. I would make an educated guess that if Carlton
had plans in the pipeline to release any UFO 1 merchandising - then that
would proceed quite seperately from any new arrangements. After all any
interest generated in UFO 1 is bound to be beneficial to UFO2! From what
Phillip told me when we met,I would assume that he purchased ALL the rights
to UFO. He talked about music, merchandising, the internet and all possible
outlets for the project, so it is a safe bet that if the pilot works, he
will be able to proceed straight to a series without having to go back to
Carlton and seek further rights. That is my educated guess.
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Marc

At 17:29 18/02/01 -0700, you wrote:
>James, in response to your question about the ownership of UFO's
>copyright, given the situation with the German banker, I contacted
>Helen Weber, who contact Ed Bishop. His response is quite...
>interesting!
>
>-------
>Gerry just told me that Phillip had acquired the rights from Carlton. He
>did not go into detail.

Would Philip being a UFO fan mean he won't object to our UFO sites? And do
we have to change the notices on our sites to 'all rights owned by Philip'
or some such, rather than Carlton? Although I assume Philip is not the
legal owner, but a company - may be one he just set up or one he owned already.

This thing has quite a lot of side issues, doesn't it....

CU

Lieve


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I wonder if this may put a snag in the hopeful issue by A&E of UFO.
Of course as has been said here before, a poor response from
Thunderbird DVD's could make this a moot point. On the plus side
this could mean the new rights owners may release all the episodes on
DVD in an effort to promote the new movie.



> At 17:29 18/02/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >James, in response to your question about the ownership of UFO's
> >copyright, given the situation with the German banker, I contacted
> >Helen Weber, who contact Ed Bishop. His response is quite...
> >interesting!
> >
> >-------
> >Gerry just told me that Phillip had acquired the rights from
Carlton. He
> >did not go into detail.
>
> Would Philip being a UFO fan mean he won't object to our UFO sites?
And do
> we have to change the notices on our sites to 'all rights owned by
Philip'
> or some such, rather than Carlton? Although I assume Philip is not
the
> legal owner, but a company - may be one he just set up or one he
owned already.