Licensing

[tjaded]

With the articles about Polaroid stopping film production but trying to find life in the form of licensing to others, I started thinking about some of the "specialty" films that Kodak had to stop production of. Ignoring the cost/feasibility of others picking up production, does anyone here know if Kodak even offers the possibility of licensing? Using EIR as an example, I know Kodak couldn't make it in a way that was profitable (which is fine/understandable from a business point of view) but if some other company wanted to produce it do you think Kodak would license the technology--or, ha ha, let someone else produce it in the name of support of an artistic art form or whatever? Just something I was wondering about.
Adios,
Matt

 

[AgX]

I guess you should ask Mary Jane Hellyar...

 

[Andy K]

If Kodak were that concerned about 'supporting an art form' they would already have begun licencing products. Look at HIE, almost every bw film photog has tried it, a great many like it and would continue using it, but Kodak made no visible effort at all to arrange any sort of licencing of it.