Date   : Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:01:10 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Domesday

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>> Message-ID: <49F49036.8030205@...>
>  
> Jules Richardson wrote:
>> Copyright is a *major* issue, by the way. The BBC have basically lost track
> of
>  
> And in doing so have breached the data protection act...

Did it apply back when Domesday was created though?

>> copyright owners for all the data on the discs, which means that they'd
>  
> Hmmm. The form at the back of the instruction manual to teachers
> for the data gathering exercise has a copyright assignment
> declaration assigning the copyright to the BBC. The only extant
> copyrights /should/ be:

I've just had a look over some of my old messages related to the Camileon 
project, and the thing that was really irking the BBC was good ol' DRM - they 
just couldn't stomach the idea of someone taking the data and reproducing it 
elsewhere. It seems that there was perhaps a way forward if the data was 
wrapped up in an iPlayer-like proprietary bit of code, but not if it was just 
a bunch of images / text / mpeg video etc. that would be easy to manipulate.

Of course DRM rather goes against the concept of storing data in a long-lived 
format... maybe the solution is to archive it all off now and just sit on it 
for a few years in the hope that the BBC will realise that DRM isn't the way 
forward?

I do need to check through conversations with Adrian Pearce though, as he did 
find some workaround and I can't remember the details now (hopefully it wasn't 
as simple as just having a 'big name' like the National Archives* behind him!)

* although on that front, running it through the National Museum of Computing 
might carry enough weight - I can raise that possibility if people think it's 
a good idea.

(sorry for disjoint thinking - still early here!)

cheers

Jules