Date : Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:02:54 -0000
From : "Dave Gorst" <dgorst@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Domesday on the telly
I can't believe anybody would actually bother to sue over such a thing. They
can't be making any money out of it and it's not as if we'd be making any
money out of it either ...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wheatley" <p.r.wheatley@...>
Cc: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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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