Dear Videolibbers I regularly read the very helpful daily digest from the site and was interested to see a conversation a few weeks back about free online access to BBC content - specifically, in this case, to Connections 1. This is really a word of thanks, as it prompted us to be in touch with the relevant BBC brand protection people to have these videos taken down from the file sharing sites.
Although this type of illegal posting of copyrighted content is rife and we cannot hope to combat it overnight, we are working with the relevant people to reduce it wherever possible. As the educational rights holder to large amounts of the BBC programme catalogue, we are keen to work with those in the educational distribution landscape and the community in general to ensure that authorised content wins out over unstable, illegal versions. We are working hard with our distributors to make as much BBC programming available as the underlying rights will allow.....if there are ever titles which are of interest but appear to be unavailable aside from on an illegal stream, we will always be happy to investigate the possibility of bringing these out of the archive for genuine distribution. Thanks again for all the continued useful info which crops up here! Jeremy Head of Sales and Licensing BBC Active Pearson Sent from my iPhone VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
