Sorry about multiple posts - Pret wifi stalled. CJB On 05/02/2020, CJB <[email protected]> wrote: > Ditto - Lines from my Grandfather's Forehaead. > > The Beeb has currently aired 'shortened' versions of most episodes > from series 1 and 2. > > Series 3 is still with Keith Wickham - the Beeb isn't interested. > > However the Beeb has not aired S01E01 / S0103 / S02E04 since about the > late 1900s. This is due to copyright restrictions from contributors. > I've heard that Harold Pinter is one. > > Quite simply the Beeb cannot or wont obtain permission to re-air various > items. > > Another case in point in the Christmas Special from 1971. At the end > is a Dylan Thomas spoof. But not anymore - this was edited out many > years ago. > > BTW if anyone has older versions - or even any versions - of the > missing episodes we'd love to hear from you. > > CJB > > > > On 05/02/2020, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 05/02/2020 10:35, Dave Liquorice wrote: >>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:57:16 +0000, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks, but I knew that, and it seems to me rather strange that an own >>>> BBC 30 years' old series should be subject to such a constraint, and >>>> wondered if anyone happened to know anything more specific. >>> >>> Depends on the rights the BBC obtained, or could obtain or can obtain, >>> for >>> anything included in that episode. Incidental music, "guest" >>> actor/actress, >>> etc... >> >> Older stuff can, possibly a little counter-intuitively, be more >> problematic than recent material, as, at the time it was made, there was >> no expectation that the BBC would ever want repeat transmission rights >> for anything other than broadcast TV. The only other distribution >> method, at the time, would have been home video, and the rights to that >> were often negotiated separately so that those involved in the >> production could get their cut there, too. Since iPlayer is neither home >> video nor broadcast, there's nothing to cover it in the original >> contracts. >> >> Mark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> get_iplayer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer >> >
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