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·
    1 year 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
      4·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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