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Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC (www.theguardian.com)

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As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This sounds less like a recording of a broadcast and instead physical media that never was supposed to be removed from the BBC in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Discarded TV film was secretly salvaged from bins and skips by staff and contractors who worked at the BBC between 1967 and 1978, when the corporation had a policy of throwing out old reels

That's more like dumpster diving. I wouldn't exactly consider that theft

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's more like dumpster diving. I wouldn't exactly consider that theft

You're not a corporate entity trying to maintain a stranglehold on an IP. I don't think there's any depth they are unwilling to plumb to protect and enhance their profits.

P.S. Yes I know the BBC is publicly funded by the British people but it is also a corporate entity that makes money on its unique IPs just like any other... cough Disney cough