Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-5442547-20130319195443/@comment-4028641-20130331172848

Look, I'm a YouTuber (quite popular actually, you've probably watched one or two of my videos and not known it) so I'll tell you that the BBC without a doubt claims copyright on the project. I've had enough vidoes taken down to tell you that.

Furthermore, if they have the right to rebroadcast it is irrelevant in my eyes, and you not wanting us to "know how to word it" is even more irrelevant.

If we can't use off-air recordings, then what about The Bells of Saint John, hu? That story aired last night, yet people are already posting images from it. What about that K9 show or The Sarah Jane Adventures? People post images from those all the time with logos and smeg all up in them... Yet that's never a problem.

What about the image that we use as the main icon on the page? That's from a news reel on the programme; someone recorded that on a VHS and posted it, so why not the original video?

I have a lot of VHS tapes, and I'll tell you that if you record in the right speed and know how to keep your tapes you can get a good recording out of them. Just because it was recorded on a tape does not mean it necessarily looks bad.

If we need to make a new copyright template for DiT, then we do. You not wanting to do it or not knowing how to word it is irrelevant.