Your right about the lawyers. As default they suggest you would be a mug to give away any part of the rights.
I know I'm slightly bias but can I suggest http://free-culture.cc/ the book to anyone interested in how complex rights can get. When started R&DTV, we took the stance of not using anything BBC pretty much, just in case there might be a contract or licence which held us from releasing the footage. Its like tip toeing in a live minefield. I do wish we were more enlightened about remix/free culture but the fact remains to most of the rights holders that all this is hippy nonsense unless its proven that they can make more revenue from giving away part of the rights. Secret[] Private[] Public[x] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC R&D North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ -----Original Message----- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Rob Myers Sent: 01 March 2010 10:31 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive? On 01/03/10 10:09, Paul Rissen wrote: > Rights are important, and should be respected - but shouldn't be used > as a weapon to scare off questions/solutions... > And we've known that we need to tackle rights on new work (the rats nest of pre-digital rights would probably require legislation to untangle) for some years now. But it's difficult to persuade the people we need to persuade of this. Their lawyers tend to try and talk them out of it at the last moment in my experience and succeed far too often. - Rob. - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
