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Originally Posted by Raider999
Thirteen year old material that you've already paid for!
All BBC programs from the past should be available on iPlayer as a right not a 'wow look how lucky you are'
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BBC programming has never been available on that basis. Actors who appear in their in-house productions are entitled to repeat fees if the material is shown again. Renegotiating this to allow for iPlayer repeats was the reason not all programming was available on the iPlayer when it first launched, and why initially the catch up period for content they did manage to negotiate was only 7 days.
On top of that, at least half of their non-factual content is pitched to them by an outside production company (Endemol or one of its subsidiaries being probably the biggest contributor in this field). If the BBC picks up the rights to one of these productions they get some creative input, then exclusive rights to the first screening followed by 30-day iPlayer catch up, and that’s it. They don’t own it and can’t provide it as a box set afterwards unless they have negotiated that with the copyright holder.
Obvs it’s easier for them to negotiate and pay for box set streaming rights for material they own the copyright to, but just because it’s their copyright still doesn’t mean they can do it at zero cost to themselves.