First Few Doctor Who Episodes May Fall To Public Domain Next Year 216
First time accepted submitter wmr89502270 writes "Doctor Who is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The special The Day of The Doctor will be broadcast simultaneously in over 75 countries and hundreds of cinemas in the UK. Across the world the hotly anticipated special episode will be screened simultaneously in full 3D. According to Copyright law of the United Kingdom, the copyright in a broadcast program expires 50 years from the end of the year in which it is broadcast, which means the first episodes will fall to public domain next year."
So the juristiction is growing. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the mouse will just make it so there is no time (Score:4, Funny)
You said it, Time Cube Guy.
Re:BBC's most effective copyright strategy in effe (Score:5, Funny)
The missing episodes [wikipedia.org] don't start until a few serials in. There are decent quality copies of all of the first three serials [wikipedia.org] floating around. Almost all of the Second Doctor Patrick Troughton episodes are missing though. A few of the key ones are intact--"The Tomb of the Cybermen" and "The War Games" for example--but for the most part his entire run is gone.
If only we had a way to go back and keep this happening, by using some sort of "time machine"...
Re:Although I must add... (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, we must immediately extend copyright legislation everywhere else in the world, retroactively, to be AT LEAST what is enacted in the US or whatever the longest limits are anywhere in the world, otherwise...civilization will end.
And we don't want that.
Re:Not rushing to Youtube to watch (Score:3, Funny)
No, that's real real money. He was talking about hypothetical real money, i.e. he wouldn't actually pay anything, but he really wants to be able to download it for free.
Re:Although I must add... (Score:5, Funny)
70 years after Doctor Who dies is a long fucking time from now :(