DrZoidberg
Contributor
Does anybody know why stuff bought and produced by public service, like BBC, most often have limited viewing access?
It's one thing if they buy a movie from some major film studio who are very anxious about maintaining control over the IP. But if public service produces something, they own it fully. They are the studio. It's paid for through tax money. Why isn't it always available online forever? BBC shows are most often only up for a year or so, and then they're gone. It's weird.
Swedish and Danish public service do the same thing. I don't get it. It's the people who owns the IP. Why make life difficult for us who paid for it? Don't we have a right to view it whenever we want to?
I heard an amazing radio play a year ago. When I wanted to hear it again with my girlfriend it was gone from the Internet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000y1d
I heard another weird thing about public service in Sweden. When they buy jingles from composers they let the composer keep the rights, so they make a shit ton of money every time the jingle is used, instead of them buying it outright and the public service owns the rights. The composers have no idea why public service are doing this. No private company would behave like this. It's just a tremendous waste of money.
It's one thing if they buy a movie from some major film studio who are very anxious about maintaining control over the IP. But if public service produces something, they own it fully. They are the studio. It's paid for through tax money. Why isn't it always available online forever? BBC shows are most often only up for a year or so, and then they're gone. It's weird.
Swedish and Danish public service do the same thing. I don't get it. It's the people who owns the IP. Why make life difficult for us who paid for it? Don't we have a right to view it whenever we want to?
I heard an amazing radio play a year ago. When I wanted to hear it again with my girlfriend it was gone from the Internet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000y1d
I heard another weird thing about public service in Sweden. When they buy jingles from composers they let the composer keep the rights, so they make a shit ton of money every time the jingle is used, instead of them buying it outright and the public service owns the rights. The composers have no idea why public service are doing this. No private company would behave like this. It's just a tremendous waste of money.