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> Unfortunately the BBC do not always own all the rights to broadcast something This is not something that happened by accident. For the last thirty years gov
by ectopod 5y ago
> Unfortunately the BBC do not always own all the rights to broadcast something
This is not something that happened by accident. For the last thirty years governments of all stripes have been forcing the BBC to outsource more and more of their production to independent companies. The BBC (or rather me and you) pay for the production and the production company keeps the rights.
When the government recently forced the BBC to publish presenter salaries, they then complained that much of the information they wanted was out of their reach because the programmes were made by independent companies. No shit!
- chrisseaton 5y agoEven if the BBC made absolutely everything in-house they still would have contracts with individual performers and other talent that would have residuals that would have to be negotiated for 'streaming' as a concept.
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- timthorn 5y agoEven where the BBC produces the programme itself, they can be prevented from streaming if they have included music where streaming rights weren't negotiated. Micro Men is a brilliant docudrama about the 80s home computer wars in the UK but because of its soundtrack won't even make it to DVD, let alone streaming.
- ratsforhorses 5y agoThanks for the reference googling I found https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM