[Imc-lwg-general] IMC Video team in Oregon needs fast help from IMC'ers in UK

[David Hrycyszyn]

Greetings IMC UK people,

Need some help with this.  We're here in Oregon working on a video and 
we'd like to include some Billy Bragg music.  We're wondering how best 
to go about securing copyright permission, and we're hoping that you can 
help us out.  Would it be smart to send the email below directly to the 
office@billybragg.co.uk email address that is listed on his website, or 
is that going to get hopelessly snarled in a web of PR wonks?  Has Mr. 
Bragg given any kind of blanket permission to use his stuff for IMC 
projects?  Does anyone have any idea how to get ahold of him fast to 
expedite permission?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as we're on a very tight 
editing schedule and we didn't think of using the song until today.  
We'd like to try to get permission within the next two days,

Dave

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We are an Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org) video team 
working on a documentary of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) 
actions in Quebec City last year, 19-22 April 2001.  The piece will 
highlight the destructive effects of the FTAA on the working people of 
the Americas, and will be updated to include events that have happened 
since the Quebec summit, including the economic collapse of neoliberal 
regimes in South America, the alleged "War on Terror", and the recent 
approval of fast-track trade promotion authority for the Bush 
administration.  The next FTAA summit will be happening in Quito, 
Ecuador, in October.

The team we have assembled includes some of the same people that worked 
on the "Praha 2000: IMF / World Bank Under Siege" and "This is What 
Democracy Looks Like" films.

We would be extremely grateful if you would allow us permission to use 
"The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" in our video.  We think 
it's the perfect song to use over images of marching riot police 
attacking demonstrators.

Hoping for a good response,

David Hrycyszyn

for the IMC FTAA Video Working Group
http://www.indymedia.org