BBC to charge licence payers ?5 to download favourite shows

[Christopher Woods]

In addition, though I've not read the article, it's almost a dead cert that 
it glosses over the distinction between watching a broadcast and 
'downloading' to keep (as opposed to taping a broadcast which is the 
loophole GiP falls under).

As new rights deals are formalised old deals are always being reviewed; 
modern contracts / licenses cover all formats, often for perpetuity, while 
old deals will have no provision for future formats like 
streaming/downloads. Thus, new licenses for archive material will have to 
have been negotiated with additional royalties offered.

The upshot of this may also be that airplay agreements might have been 
renewed in conjunction, allowing programmes that had reached their maximum 
number of terrestrial broadcasts to get a new tranche of airings - so they 
may appear on the iPlayer soon. (This is all conjecture, but not unreasonable.)

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On 29 December 2013 12:29:00 TQ <tony at tqvideo.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 29 December 2013 at 12:16 Mark Fraser
> > <infradead at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday 29 Dec 2013 12:05:57 TQ wrote:
> > > > On 29 December 2013 at 11:51 Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Not sure if it was posted as being a bad thing or a good thing.
> > > >
> > > > To summarise: iplayer free content will go from 7 days to 30 days
> > > > and
> > > > other programmes includind previously unavailable series will be
> > > > made
> > > > available to purchase at £1 less than currently charged.
> > > >
> > > > Seems a win all round!
> > >
> > > It's a start, but the Netflix model of a monthly subscription seems
> > > like
> > > it would be more useful.
> >
> > Don't we already pay a yearly subscription called a TV licence?
>
> Of course, I should have made it more clear that I was referring to
> archival, and not current material
>
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