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

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

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • daetilus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      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

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        10 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