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I got this response from Nozomi today. What
do we want to tell him? I'll also cc my personal reply to the list, but,
of course, I can't give him permission on the contest... That has to be a group
decision. I do think that as long as he gets the individual permissions,
there should be no problem from a legal standpoint. My personal feeling is
that we should do it in the spirit of cooperation between
aquarists.
Karen
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Contest
Dear Karen,
Thank you for your
e-mail. We would like to have all of the contest entries. If it is bothersome
for you to ask permission from the entrants, I will make a contact with the
entrants, if you provide us the entrant information.
We have introduced your contest on AQUA
JOURNAL before, and many Japanese aquarium hobbyists were saying that they
wanted to see many layout produced by AGA members. Mr. Amano thinks it is not
matter of "good enough", but the contest is the place many hobbyists show their
layout people to other people.
We consider the planted aquarium hobby
does not spread to more people if the hobby is for only handful expert's hobby.
In this sense, we consider the contest is only way people could show their
aquarium.
I look forward to hearing from
you.
Best regards,
Nozomi Hayakawa
Aqua Design Amano Co., Ltd.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:47
PM
Subject: Re: Contest
Dear Nozomi,
I have forwarded your request to our board.
I think it might be a good idea, but I need to find out whether we can do this
legally, without first obtaining permission from the entrants. Also,
please remember that although we are based in the U.S., AGA is an
international organization, and many of our entries are from members in other
countries. (I recently did a poster to promote the AGA and wanted to
include flags from our members' countries. I was astounded to find that
we have members in 37 different countries!!!) Would you want all of the
contest entries, or just those submitted by people in the U.S.?
Sincerely,
Karen
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:18
AM
Subject: Contest
Dear Karen,
We have only a few
applicant from the UP.S. Mr. Amano would like to have as many applicant as
possible from the U.S. Mr. Amano would like to ask if you could send us
layout works your AGA members applied for your AGA contest.
Mr. Amano thinks even for your members
it is quite interesting how AGA members are graded in our
contest.
I look forward to hearing from you
soon.
Best regards,
Nozomi Hayakawa
Aqua Design Amano Co.,
Ltd.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003
12:29 PM
Subject: TAG Deadline
Dear Nozomi,
Just wanted to remind you that the deadline
for articles and advertisements for TAG VOl. 16, No. 3 is June
first. I'm sending out reminders a little earlier than usual because
I'm leaving soon for a trip to Europe, and I won't be back until June
3rd. If you can forward the next article to Tomoko, and the photographs
and advertisement to Cheryl by then, I would appreciate
it!
Thank you as always!
Karen
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