Date   : Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:37:37 +0000
From   : Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Domesday on the telly

John Woodgate wrote:
> 
> I read in !bbc-micro that Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...> wrote
> (in <3C77CD04.E5CFEBD3@...>) about '[BBC-Micro] BBC Domesday on
> the telly', on Sat, 23 Feb 2002:
> >the first obstacle is
> >legal. We certainly won't be able to give access to anyone. It'll be up to
> >someone else (maybe the BBC or the British Library perhaps) to pay the
> >relevant people and then provide access...
> 
> I've come into this thread very late, and I'd like to know more about
> the legal problem as it could be relevant to things that I do.
> 
> Who are the 'relevant people'? I don't recall the details of the
> Domesday project: I think the BBC were in command?

Yes. They ran the project. Other key partners were Philips and Acorn. The
list of rights holders is considerable including the Ordnance Survey.

> 
> What I have in mind is that very often corporate owners of rights in
> legacy material are prepared to forgo re-publication rights (or set a
> very minimal fee just to affirm their rights) if the re-publishers
> promise not to bother them with enquiries. (;-)

We certainly aren't going to "re-publish" anything and I think to suggest
that would probably be tempting the wrath of the rights owners. We simply
want to do the work to preserve the Domesday with no access. If anyone else
wants to negotiate for providing access, thats up to them (we don't have cash
for this).

The arguement I'm using is that if the rights holders let us do this work for
free, we are opening up a new market for them (or more accurately, re-opening
an old market).

Cheers

Paul
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