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The Whoniverse comes to iPlayer Nov 1st

I really, really hate to say it, but I think if this isn't settled in a way that is beneficial to most (and not him), then maybe the BBC will have to pay him that sum.

I mean, its the damn original serial. You can't have the entire series except it in any platform, can you?
 
Problem, I suspect, is that the 1963 contracts covered anything then imagined, but not streaming. Possibly imferreed, as a mention of future uses, but not specified.
 
Emperor-Tiberius said:
I really, really hate to say it, but I think if this isn't settled in a way that is beneficial to most (and not him), then maybe the BBC will have to pay him that sum.

I mean, its the damn original serial. You can't have the entire series except it in any platform, can you?
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He says it's not money, but Vengeance. Though his father died two years later while working for the BBC.
 
jaime said:
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.
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The Repeat rule was one more screening within two years. Hence Evil was wiped within weeks of its repeat.
Enterprises bought the rights for five years. And sometimes for five more. Hence Enterprises rights ran out in the mid 70s.
 
jaime said:
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.
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For a bit, one episode of B7 couldn't be shown on satellite as an actor vetoed it. Then the rules were changed (reportedly because Martin Shaw was unhappy about Proffesionals, but Gordon Jackson's widow needed the residuals. This may well be a myth). Anyway, one person can no longer stopped the others getting a minimal payout.
 
diankra said:
For a bit, one episode of B7 couldn't be shown on satellite as an actor vetoed it. Then the rules were changed (reportedly because Martin Shaw was unhappy about Proffesionals, but Gordon Jackson's widow needed the residuals. This may well be a myth). Anyway, one person can no longer stopped the others getting a minimal payout.
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Which episode of B7 was that? And which actor? (Though I guess it might be obvious once I know the episode)
 
I can't look at the guy's Twitter without feeling sick but I saw someone else quote him as saying he was arranging to leave the rights in his will to someone who hates the BBC as much as he does to ensure it will never be available.

Good news (?) is the copyright lapses in 2047, 70 years after Coburn Sr's death.
 
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diankra said:
For a bit, one episode of B7 couldn't be shown on satellite as an actor vetoed it. Then the rules were changed (reportedly because Martin Shaw was unhappy about Proffesionals, but Gordon Jackson's widow needed the residuals. This may well be a myth). Anyway, one person can no longer stopped the others getting a minimal payout.
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Likely Lads as well, the one (more successful career ironically…) ——James Bolam! Couldn’t remember his name for a minute — who isn’t Rodney Bewes, prevented repeats for so long that it was screwing everyone out of a pay packet that they needed and otherwise would have got.
 
Emperor-Tiberius said:
I really, really hate to say it, but I think if this isn't settled in a way that is beneficial to most (and not him), then maybe the BBC will have to pay him that sum.

I mean, its the damn original serial. You can't have the entire series except it in any platform, can you?
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I hear he asked for a piddle 26k, likely knowing whoever he was dealing with at the Beeb would say no on principle (though also, it doesn’t suggest if that was for perpetual rights or what have you) probably.
For years they’ve had ‘classic who’ on britbox/ITVX with McGanns face but no TV Movie.
 
Its exactly the thing to mark the occassion, this mess. I can see us discussing it, twenty years on:

"Remember the 60th anniversary, when BBC lost the rights to the very first Doctor Who serial, An Unearthly Child? Man, those were the days!"
 
Ah sod it, just animate or film the David Whitaker written opening for The Daleks novelisation, and make that the new/old official start.
It’s better anyway.
 
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