Date   : Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:40:52 +0000
From   : John Woodgate <jmw@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Domesday on the telly

I read in !bbc-micro that Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...> wrote
(in <3C7F59F1.535DEEC8@...>) about '[BBC-Micro] BBC Domesday on
the telly', on Fri, 1 Mar 2002:

>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).

But the preservation effort (which I strongly support) is futile unless
there will be access. So I would have thought that you would at least
have *informed* the rights owners of what you are doing, at least partly
to prevent them getting the impression that you would violate copyright
but also to sound out, informally, their views on the exploitation of
your work.
>
>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).

Indeed; they might require royalty in addition to, or instead of, an
initial licence fee.
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