Hugo Ceremony Video Sorted

[kevin_standlee]

Cheryl Morgan, representing the Hugo Awards Marketing Committee, contacted the BBC about the copyright block put on the 2018 Hugo Awards Ceremony, and was able to get to the right person in legal there who could sort it out and unblock it. I'm very grateful that she was able to get this cleared up overnight, so people who weren't able to watch the ceremony live (including possibly those people who claim that we must always schedule the ceremony for the convenience of people who live in the US Eastern Time Zone, sigh) can now watch the event.

Comments

[drplokta]

Good luck with scheduling the 2020 Hugo ceremony for the convenience of people on Eastern Daylight Time....

[kevin_standlee]

I sort of want to go to them and say, "When do you propose it should be scheduled when the convention in in New Zealand?" Possibly they'll answer something like, "Well, it should be held in the USA where the only people who matter are."

As we've learned, Fans are not Slans; they are Flakes.

[hms42]

For those of us on the east coast of the US, we will have to deal. (For those who can't handle the hugo awards occurring early in the morning can watch the video afterwards.)

Besides, Dublin likely will be about 3-6p EDT. (I had NO problem watching them till they ended last night). Its worldcon,

Thank you for all of the hard work on making sure it happened successfully.