My understanding is that the BBC's strategy is to treat the UK and rest-of-world markets differently, with a profit orientation on the World side. Technical geolocalisation solutions are indeed doomed to failure in my view. Those sly devils at Google showed me a sponsored link last week promising international access to UK iPlayer through a proxy.
As a former musician and record producer, you'll have no pity from me for the rapacious vultures of the music biz :-) But I'm speaking generally about digital disruption. The free-to-air model is now the free-to-world model. I'm actually much more worried about newspapers. Sean. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Mo McRoberts <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:04, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How can they be compensated fairly for their work? A watermarking >> scheme which counts downloads or views, and apportions revenues >> accordingly? That would possibly mean a shift away from >> overcompensation of big names and a reduction of middlemen, not bad >> things > > What, in your mind, are they being (additionally) compensated for? > Bearing in mind that in this context, the broadcasts are being made to > about 50 million people freely over the airwaves and the > rights-holders are already paid for this. > > Anybody within that group of 50 million has already been compensated > on behalf of through the commissioning process. If a significant > proportion of the downloaders of your FTA UK content are themselves > within the UK, as a rights-holder I’d be asking myself why they’re > having to resort to illicit means to obtain content they already had > rights to receive and time-shift. Then I’d try to fix it. > > Once you start going outside of the UK, things are more complicated. > One thing is critically evident as things have changed over the past > few years: artificial geographically-based restrictions are doomed to > failure. If you have to wait weeks, or even months (and sometimes > years) to get the same content legally in your region, the > rights-holders have shot themselves in the foot. > > The broadcast industry would do well to learn from the mistakes the > music industry made: artificial scarcity, legal threats, hyperbole and > DRM only actually achieve the intended results for a painfully short > period of time. > > M. > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
