[Tech1] My copyright infringement

[ian.norman at armoor.co.uk]

Hello.

If they no longer have a copy, can they still hold the copyright?

There's plenty of material recorded on VHS etc that the BBC wiped.


Best regards

Ian Norman

Email: mailto:ian.norman at armoor.co.uk
Telephone: 01643 888181

On 22/11/2019 10:53, Bernard Newnham via Tech1 wrote:
> Can you see this?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKImDXRiw5M&feature=youtu.be
> 
> I've been send an email from YouTube saying that BBC Studios say it's 
> their copyright and is going to be removed. Also if I get vexatious 
> they'll close my account.
> 
> This - if you can see it - is a trail for a radio show called 
> Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It was featured on the front cover of 
> Radio Times, which sort of presents a challenge if you have to put it on 
> the telly in a Radio Times trail.  So I talked to Oliver Elmes in 
> graphics and asked him to get hold of some prisms and put "Don't Panic" 
> in large friendly letters on one of them.  "???", he said, but did it 
> anyway.  I wrote a script for Peter Jones to read, and went along to the 
> HHGG studio to get it recorded. I had no real idea how it would work out 
> in the studio, so had various things to try and make it a bit glitzy - 
> lights, a shiny wobble board, a Dr Who howl round, and smoke. The latter 
> turned out to be a bad idea, as it seems that the aircon in Pres was 
> routed everywhere, and when I left the studio the senior announcer was 
> in the corridor saying words like "Fire, fire".
> 
> Anyway, it went on the air, and then went the way of 99% of trails - the 
> TV equivalent of fish and chip paper. Except - like all of us, there 
> were things we were proud of, so we copied them off to VHS, and there 
> they stayed until the internet came along much, much later.  The HHGG 
> anorak fans were very pleased to get their hands on it, and still are.
> 
> So - is it fair use to put on YouTube something I made, and that only 
> exists because I saved it? We shall see.
> 
> B
> 
> PS  And if you can't see it, it's here - 
> http://www.tech-ops.co.uk/bern/hitchhikers_radio_trail.wmv
>