Date   : Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:57:05 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: BBC Domesday on the telly

Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...> wrote:
> > Ah, yes, I'd forgotton about the BBC getting upset. Still, that
> > doesn't stop you doing the work - just from making it public!
> > Sprow.
> 
> I believe the BBC have some interest in the work, but they aren't the owners
> of the BBC Domesday material...
 
As I understand the issues, technically, the copyright owners of the
material, other than the Ordnance Survery, the Beeb, and various others,
are the four million or so school children who contributed in the
mid-1980s.  There were no copyright waivers signed at the time, no
contracts of transfer drawn up, and being under 18 it is debateable
whether they would have been legal signitaries anyway.
 
However, just because somebody created a "work of art"[1] while a minor is
no legal reason to steal it from them.
 
[1] Technical term.
 
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