Posted by
doorstop100 on
Jun 23, 2002; 3:57pm
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Ed-Bishop-condensed-commentary-online-tp1496337p1496486.html
--- In SHADO@y..., James Gibbon <james.gibbon@v...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've edited out the gaps in Ed's Subsmash commentary, and
> managed to get the whole thing into a 14 minute mp3. It will
> be online for a day or two at:
>
>
http://freespace.virgin.net/ <snip>
OK, I've just dipped into the group after being away for a few weeks
and I have to say that I think this is very, very dodgy.
I'm not talking out of my arse here - I'm the content producer for
the BBC Doctor Who DVD range and I can assure you that if anyone
posted mp3's of any of our commentaries, I'd get BBC Legal down on
them like a ton of bricks AND I'd get them to instruct Yahoo! to
close the group - which they have done before for us.
Why can't people understand that ownership of a piece of merchandise
does not give them any rights *whatsoever* to republish it over the
internet? For God's sake, the second boxset had hardly hit the shops
before you were pirating bits of it and publishing it on your
website!
This sort of stuff makes me so cross... It's exactly why Paramount
closed down all the Star Trek website because a few people were
breaking their copyright in serious ways. Fandom needs to make sure
it polices itself to stop this kind of copyright infringement
happening - and to make sure that our fan sites don't go the same
way as the Star Trek ones did...
Steve Roberts