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[twincityhacker]

Okay. Explain to me the logics of not being able to watch the Torchwood clips on the BBC "because of rights reasons" but it's totally okay for the international section of the BBC news to post clips of "Time Watch" on an article about Stonehenge.

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[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the fun and exciting world on online streaming video and rights issues!

Now, I'll be the first person who will admit that I don't know THAT much about online rights. However, I believe that the issue lies in the agreements that the BBC has made in who have international broadcast rights. Sorry if I'm catty about it, but because I'm in Canada, I get burned. A LOT. For example, Comedy Central's site is partly blocked (It redirects to the Canadian Comedy Network) and I get no video.

With Time Watch, there's only short clips, not whole episodes. Also, the show might not have been sold overseas.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

It's not just clips on the site, I can't even get the main page to load completely. And the Torchwood site's videos is just behind the scenes materials and similar things that would air in advertisements for "next time on Torchwood"

But it's also strange because BBC America runs Torchwood. Which is owned by BBC Worldwide. Which is owned by the BBC. And the DVDs that are put out have a BBC ownership too.

Not to mention that the "extra content" the BBC America has for Torchwood is acessabile by UK viewers.

This does not get into the madness that the CBC coughed up money for Torchwood and can't view any matierals either.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

It sounds like what used to happen with the Showtime site. Despite Showtime airing CBC productions, EVERYTHING was blocked. Such as it is, Canadians are kinda used to it.

The BBC/BBC America might be that they're trying to filter the North American users through the US site. Why? Dunno. The lack of protection the the US site might be an oversight. The BBC went really crazy a while back on the UK site.

Home Video =/= TV Broadcast =/= Online Broadcast. Okay, this might be TMI from a business POV, but here's a stupid example of this in action: The Red Green Show, or, hell, ANY S&S Production. We have home video releases and TV runs, but notice that there's no official releases of the show online aside from a tiny amount of clips on the Red Green site from many seasons ago. Why? Because the rights are tied to another company who is sitting on them. Therefore, no official clips.

It's really lame.