Date : Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:49:22 +0000
From : Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Domesday on the telly
Dave Gorst wrote:
>
> 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 ...
Well I have to agree with your thoughts there, but we have to be careful on
these things. What we really need is someone to make UK copyright law a
little clearer. Hopefully our recent publicity and House of Commons do's will
take us some way to sorting this one, but we still have a long way to go.
Paul
>
> ----- 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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