Just A Minute

seeing as Don asked me to, I am jumping into this discussion although to be honest, I don’t have anything profound to say.

 

First thing is you can make any distinction you wish but any unofficial download is a copyright violation. Every transcript on my website is a copyright violation. Espen’s stream is a copyright violation. Every Just A Minute video on YouTube is a copyright violation. If you feel strongly about keeping to the law, well, that’s the law. It may seem unlikely that the BBC would ever publish complete transcripts of the entire series – but that doesn’t give me the legal right to make the decision to publish for them.

 

I’m always very aware that some lawyer at the BBC could close my site down, through a very simple complaint to Yahoo who host it. Now I have helped the BBC with information several times and been acknowledged for my work by the producers and Nicholas and others, and the BBC even links to it. But that doesn’t matter – it would still be open to the BBC to take a position against the large amount of copyright violation that is there.

 

I have once had to take something down – or more accurately it was taken down for me! I posted on the blog a post about Espen’s web stream. Blogger took it down after a report from someone in the recording industry that I was promoting a copyright violation. Thgey gave me the right to appeal it. But I didn’t want any trouble – or anyone looking any further at the site – so I did nothing. The permanent links to the stream on both the main website and the blog remain.

 

So in the end I think this is really a question for everyone individually.Personally I always buy the CDs although I always have the shows already. That’s my small way of saying thank you.