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Re: [TCML] Re: [UK] Coiling in the Media
I think Jeff is sharing some of his hard won experience in an industry that is characterized by notorious moral elasticity. {I have some similar experience, and you can find it in the archives}
I presume that nobody has objections to being compensated for your hard work, if it's available? If nothing else, it's something that can be plowed back into your hobby.
There are a few cautions, though, once you start to accept payment for your coiling, and that's the specter of things like liability insurance, etc. Once there's that contractual relationship in place, that's a hook upon which legal action can be hung.
It's one thing to show off your coil to some friends or friends of friends as a casual back yard demo. If something goes wrong in the amateur world, it's just one of those unfortunate things, and most of the time, not much comes of it (although your homeowner's insurance may wind up covering something...).
It's another when you do it for pay, because you've just moved into the world of "professional". Now you have some sort of "duty of care", pretty darn ill-defined, but certainly enough for an insurance company who's paying medical bills and looking for other sources of reimbursement to go asking you some questions that can be quite expensive to answer.
Folks who do things like give horseback riding lessons in their backyard have found this out. If your kid falls off the horse and breaks their arm, about 3 or 4 weeks later, you get a letter from the insurance company asking: "Where did the accident occur? Who owns the location where the accident occurred? ..."
So.. on the one hand, if the production company has a budget to pay you, why not collect the cash? On the other hand, think carefully about what that means.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Kraus <plymouth_4406@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Dec 7, 2007 9:40 PM
>To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [TCML] Re: [UK] Coiling in the Media
>
>Jeff,
>
> Maybe if we turn this into a for profit mailing list everyone will clam up when they have a new or innovative idea and try to squeeze a buck from it. Of course that will make hunting a little harder. I think Peter is in it for the science and fun of it. Thanks Peter -cool stuff!
>
> Scott
>
>Teslacoil Workshop <workshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter,
>
>Great work!
>
>I hope you're getting paid. DC's production companies are well funded and
>you should be making $$$ from these gigs. If not, there is a line producer
>somewhere that has pocketed the funds that DC gave them to give to you.
>Something to think about. ;-)
>
>Jeff Parisse
>Director, kVA Effects
>www.teslacoil.com
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Terren"
>
>To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List"
>Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 5:34 AM
>Subject: Re: [TCML] Re: [UK] Coiling in the Media
>
>
>> Its been a busy week for media for me kicked off by the Tesla Christmas
>tree
>> which gave me 90,000 hits to my site. There was an interview for
>Wired.com,
>> one for Barcroft media (which did the Metro article) plus transferring 60M
>> of high res pics. Also lots of correspondence regarding the Discovery
>> Channel shoot of the Xmas tree tomorrow for a 4 min segment to be shown in
>> Canada. (will probably take 6 hours of shooting).
>> The one I enjoyed most though, was the Hungarian Maxim ("men's") magazine.
>I
>> love showing people the 2 page article with the golden sparks then watch
>as
>> they turn it to see the cover which in Maxim fashion shows two very
>scantily
>> clad ladies. (of course I only read the articles.....)
>> This is the scanned Metro page 3 article.
>> http://tesladownunder.com/TESLA%20COIL%20-%20Metro%201500.jpg
>>
>> Peter
>> http://tesladownunder.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > Quoting Dave Pierson :
>> > Just a quick note from the UK to say there was a full page article on
>> > Peter
>> > Terren's tesla coiling activities in the Metro newspaper this morning,
>> > featuring lots of nice pictures (including the car theft protection and
>> > christmas tree). Nice one Peter!
>> > Thusly:
>> www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=3D78576&in_page_id=34
>> >> best
>> >> dwp
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