Re: Chidren today...


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 04, 2010 at 19:45:57 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Chidren today... posted by Andy on February 04, 2010 at 10:43:23:

Peter, I suspect all the iPlayer's "local only" content is more of a copyright clearance issue than mere mean-spiritedness. :-)

All of the above, I think.

The copyright question is very important. When I was making the things, broadband and the intarweb weren't yet a reality, but buying in footage was hedged about with detailed conditions; there was a different price- a very large difference, sometimes outright prohibition, depending on the number of transmissions, the ability to resell etc. I'm sure that applies to the ability to make it available on line. It's also true for artists' contracts; those of the actors in the old SA clips will certainly have included clauses about the number of transmissions, and where those would be. Those clauses will still be valid. New contracts will have different conditions, but buying out the old contracts to change the terms is extremely expensive...

But there was a large public fuss made about people who hadn't paid the license fee being able to get good quality access effectively for free- quite different from seeing it in a programme broadcast abroad, as at that time it will have been paid for by the foreign rebroadcaster. But that argument was expressed in supremely mean minded terms. Or at least, I thought so at the time.

And of course, the BBC do sell a lot of their material abroad. They don't want to sabotage that trade; they badly need the revenue.


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