[Xmca-l] Re: Fwd: Butterflies of Zagorski

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

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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