Additionally, there was a small security/hacker conference calling itself NolaCon. Luckily, we did not have to do anything as the MPC is not responsible for protecting individual conventions’ names. A Chinese television company based in Washington, D.C., SEP, was looking for a speaker regarding the science fiction market in China. We gave them a few more appropriate names/organizations to contact. Jo Van Ekeren offered her services to the MPC. She actively helped collect the information needed to get our EU marks registered, and we look forward to her continued participation in one manner or another. We continue to receive various enquiries not MPC related. We received one asking how to submit a work for Hugo consideration; this year we received such an enquiry from China. We also received an enquiry from a woman whose aunt and uncle live in what was Alfred Bester’s Pennsylvania home. The top floor of the house still contains his reference/research books and other related materials! Before they cleared this space, they wanted to know if any of these items would be of interest to the MPC. We recommended they contact either the Fan History Project or the Eaton Collection, depending on whether the material was fannish or professional. This spring we received a request from the offices of Future Man, a new Sony television series, for permission to use a mock of a Hugo Award as set “dummy” dressing in the fictional home of a famous Hollywood director in an episode of the series. We responded that we had no objection to their using a mock-up of a Hugo Award, or even an actual Hugo Award trophy, and suggested they contact the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, which could probably put them in contact with someone who has an actual Hugo Award trophy.) We asked in return if they could include our mark in the closing credits of the episode and to please let us know when the episode becomes available so that we could publicize it through the Hugo Awards web site. The producers said they had no control over the issue and that they could not add the credit, but that they would send their standard release to confirm permissions. We also received a question along the same lines from Paul Cornell, the author of the comic, Saucer State, asking if he could draw a Hugo Award (unmentioned) sitting on the desk of a fictional science fiction writer. We did not see any problem with that.
Additionally, there was a small security/hacker conference calling itself NolaCon. Luckily, we did not have to do anything as the MPC is not responsible for protecting individual conventions’ names. A Chinese television company based in Washington, D.C., SEP, was looking for a speaker regarding the science fiction market in China. We gave them a few more appropriate names/organizations to contact. Jo Van Ekeren offered her services to the MPC. She actively helped collect the information needed to get our EU marks registered, and we look forward to her continued participation in one manner or another. We continue to receive various enquiries not MPC related. We received one asking how to submit a work for Hugo consideration; this year we received such an enquiry from China. We also received an enquiry from a woman whose aunt and uncle live in what was Alfred Bester’s Pennsylvania home. The top floor of the house still contains his reference/research books and other related materials! Before they cleared this space, they wanted to know if any of these items would be of interest to the MPC. We recommended they contact either the Fan History Project or the Eaton Collection, depending on whether the material was fannish or professional. This spring we received a request from the offices of Future Man, a new Sony television series, for permission to use a mock “dummy” of a Hugo Award as set dressing in the fictional home of a famous Hollywood director in an episode of the series. We responded that we had no objection to their using a mock-up of a Hugo Award, or even an actual Hugo Award trophy, and suggested they contact the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, which could probably put them in contact with someone who has an actual Hugo Award trophy.) We asked in return if they could include our mark in the closing credits of the episode and to please let us know when the episode becomes available so that we could publicize it through the Hugo Awards web site. The producers said they had no control over the issue and that they could not add the credit, but that they would send their standard release to confirm permissions. We also received a question along the same lines from Paul Cornell, the author of the comic, Saucer State, asking if he could draw a Hugo Award (unmentioned) sitting on the desk of a fictional science fiction writer. We did not see any problem with that.
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