Date   : Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:15:08 +0100
From   : Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Domesday on the telly

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...> wrote:
>>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,


Actually the BBC sent out copyright forms to all the schools involved, 
although a lot of the school kids had actually left school before they were 
sent out.

> 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.


Not sure what you're getting at here. Preserving BBC Domesday with no access 
is not stealing. Its ensuring that their "work(s) of art" aren't lost forever.

Paul


>  
> [1] Technical term.
>  
> 


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