[Xmca-l] Re: Fwd: Butterflies of Zagorski
Andy Blunden
ablunden@mira.net
Wed Oct 9 15:36:20 PDT 2013
Who owns the VHS tape is not material to your right to digitise it and
publish it on vimeo.com.
I understand that Butterflies of Zagorsk was produced by Michael Dean
for the BBC in 1990.
So it will be Michael Dean and/or the BBC who owns the rights. Although
BBC is a public organisation, I understand that it is a statutory
authority rather than an arm of government so it does exercise ownership
over its products.
So *technically* you do not have the right to publish it on vimeo.com.
But in reality, if Dean or the BBC were to object, then it you could
take it down and that would be the end of the matter. It is only
*persisting* in publishing copyrighted material contrary to legal
requests to desist which opens you to legal threat, not the publishing
as such, as I understand it.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.mira.net/~andy/
mike cole wrote:
> I have a copy of this video in vhs format which can be digitized. But it
> belongs to someone. Do I have to right to post it on vimeo?
> mike
>
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