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That's a little different - isn't the problem there that the copyright for each individual programme is unclear and may not be wholly owned by the BBC? As a res
by joosters 11y ago
That's a little different - isn't the problem there that the copyright for each individual programme is unclear and may not be wholly owned by the BBC? As a result, it is difficult and time consuming to track down the owner of each programme to secure the online archival permissions.
With the book collections in the original article, copyright is very clear. Their books are out of copyright and the collections own the photographs that they took of them. So, they are able to make them freely available if they choose to.
- venomsnake 11y agoFirst - archival should be the ultimate fair use. Because the explicit deal of copyright is - temporary monopoly vs public domain after its expiry, any attempt to prevent or not aid archiving is equal to directly depraving the public of what it is owned in the future.
- detaro 11y agoArchival is not the (legal) problem. Making the archive publicly accessible for consumption is. (and note that most countries' version of "fair use" doesn't cover as much as the US one)