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| Articles about Minefield |
| Walking Across A Minefield | | 2008-04-14 12:40:00 | | Over the last few years I have probably joined a couple of dozen health related forums looking for new tools to add to the mental health toolbox. With some forums I participate for a couple of days then just disappear for good where others I appear on a pretty regular basis over the course of years such as Healthboards where my post count is around 3500 and Crazyboards where my post count is still pretty low but it is a rarity that I do not visit at least once a day over. Forums are a great way to gain a new perspective on your situation and they also are a firm reminder that you are not the only one fighting monsters.There are drawbacks to forums and I will go through the list of where I have the most problems with that have chased me from various places across the web.1. Judgmental people - Have never figured out why people with one disorder will quickly turn around and slam a different disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is such a target and to often I see the comment "Well | | By: UNTREATABLE' S BLOG - Borderline Personality Self | | |
| | Toy safety - is it a minefield? | | 2008-03-25 06:32:12 | | Mulberry Bush take the issue of Toy safety very seriously. All the toys we sell come from reputable manufacturers and safety testing certificates are held by them, or by the company that imports them into Europe. The test certificate for any toy – be it a wooden toy, game, doll etc - [...] | | By: Mulberry Bush Toys | | |
| | On-line rights - a minefield? | | 2007-04-19 17:07:00 | | It seems to be that we are caught in an ever decreasing spiral, broadcasters want more rights for less budget.Case in point; producers now nearly always have to clear for internet or on-line rights, but with no concomitant increase in budget to cover this. Gone are the days when all rights all media meant exactly that, and beware if you have to go back to the footage supplier to increase the rights - they will charge you - and hopefully not like a wounded bull.And why?Where's the profit for the broadcasters in on-line rights, none to date. Or are they just securing their future as the notion of sitting down to watch television for the evening disappears. Probably.Two recent trials from BBC2 and Channel 4 saw hundred of thousands of punters downloading TV content online, a report in Broadcast (26 May 2006 p 13) revealed that there is a real demand for TV content over the internet. Curiously people are happy to pay per episode to view episodes of whatever on computer screens, whilst they sit uncomfortably at desks. When the same episode can be viewed for free on larger tv screens where the sofa is far more comfortable ... maybe I just don’t get it.So where does that leave producers and where does it leave stock footage libraries?Many libraries refuse to grant on-line rights, I'm not sure why, that seems to me to be cutting off a nose to spite your face, or revenue stream to spite your bottom line. Is it because things on the internet are too easily open to illegal copying and other fraudulent exploitation and that libraries are fearful of being ripped off? Possibly, but in my view that is going to happen in any case. We too at NHNZ Images, have had our fair share of illegal copies of clips widely available on the YouTube and similar [and, incidentally where we find it we ask nicely that it be removed].And it is something of a weird situation when often those same libraries have low-resolution clips available on their websites for browsing.It leaves producers | | By: NHNZ Images News | | |
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