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The Whoniverse comes to iPlayer Nov 1st

I can't believe that the very first episode is now being wiped from platforms. It seems like such a petty thing to go after.


That's like some relative of the writer for "Castrovalva" demanding it be removed.
 
That does beg the question on the royalties on the rest of the 800 episodes' writers. Are they all comfortable with their streaming compensations? Or could this awaken clauses with the rest of them?
 
Emperor-Tiberius said:
That does beg the question on the royalties on the rest of the 800 episodes' writers. Are they all comfortable with their streaming compensations? Or could this awaken clauses with the rest of them?
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There's about 1020 episodes if you count everything and even when you exclude the missing episodes and unanimated stories that still leaves dozens of episodes unaccounted for. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't put 'Talons' up regardless of approvals but clearly it's more then just this one person saying no. The difference is the rest aren't being vocal about it.

And I really wish I'd never heard of him. This is a man whose response to the death of his COVID vaccinated son was to declare that it proved him right for not getting vaccinated.
 
It is apparentlly noticeable that he doesn't seem to be fighting over his father's work on Poldark, Robert Baldick, and other things. (Poldark is particularly relevant as Anthony Coburn was producing it when his last illness hit him).
Though to run through small print that might be important... a producer is BBC staff, but a writer is a freelancer whose work is bought under various time limited options.
 
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The must be some confused people at Amazon today.
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It can probably still be put on iPlayer. That seems to work in essentially a very similar way to a repeat broadcast as far as I can tell. Anything else might count as selling on rights in some manner.
 
The UK rights laws are crazy. How can one person ban an episode of a franchise they don't own from getting rereleased? Much less the relative of someone who worked on the episode? Its weird enough that the BBC doesn't own the characters created for the show like The Daleks, K-9, etc, but its absolutely asinine that the son of someone can get the first episode of Doctor Who blocked. The rights to airing episodes should never be up to random asshole relatives of people that just worked on the episode.

Imagine if (just as an US example, I'm not saying that this person is the kind of person that would do this even if they could) Rod Roddenberry got annoyed one day and could just Thanos snap Star Trek out of existence. Or if Paul Dini went insane and his 26 episodes of Batman: TAS were just gone from streaming/rerelease.

I never want to hear anyone complain about the US Copyright system ever again. Sure, it takes forever for stuff to go public domain and some people don't like that, but at least random people can't remove parts of history on a whim just because they feel like being an asshole.
 
kirk55555 said:
The UK rights laws are crazy. How can one person ban an episode of a franchise they don't own from getting rereleased? Much less the relative of someone who worked on the episode? Its weird enough that the BBC doesn't own the characters created for the show like The Daleks, K-9, etc, but its absolutely asinine that the son of someone can get the first episode of Doctor Who blocked. The rights to airing episodes should never be up to random asshole relatives of people that just worked on the episode.

Imagine if (just as an US example, I'm not saying that this person is the kind of person that would do this even if they could) Rod Roddenberry got annoyed one day and could just Thanos snap Star Trek out of existence. Or if Paul Dini went insane and his 26 episodes of Batman: TAS were just gone from streaming/rerelease.

I never want to hear anyone complain about the US Copyright system ever again. Sure, it takes forever for stuff to go public domain and some people don't like that, but at least random people can't remove parts of history on a whim just because they feel like being an asshole.
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It’s actually quite good until it goes wrong. If a bit weird, and a complete overhang from long ago — it’s not really done the same way anymore.
 
Not really 'cos presumably he didn't get the pay-out he wanted. Everyone lost.

Also a quick Google points out it's available on Daily Motion if not other places if you're that desperate to see it.
 
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