Copyright Aid

well, i couldn't have recorded the original broadcast in the 50s, but the bbc occasionally rebroadcasts older shows. For example, on a site i visit where people post links to downloads of, amongst other things, tv shows, someone has uploaded a recording of the bbc's performance of 1984 starring ...

Well, to be honest, I hadn't really thought about doing much except watching them and maybe giving friends copies if they were interested, nothing commercial. It would be nice to be able to look at tv show (any old originally copywritten work for that matter) and easily know that you can do whatever ...

If its the case that live broadcast only are counted, then things get more confusing as to what counts as "live", as according to the bbc, when explaining the loss of old episodes of dr who and many other shows like dad's army:

Right up until the 1970s, many television and radio broadcasts ...

Thanks again for your help with the last question. I have another which I'm less certain about. The copyright duration for broadcasts is 50 years. Does this mean that anyone broadcast by the bbc and other stations pre-1957 is in the public domain or are there other complicating issues (i've read ...

Thanks again. I was planning any commercial use or anything, i just wanted to doublecheck with someone before downloading to read them

Hi, thanks for the response. I had a look at the past thread, its very helpful. In it, the following is quoted:

Section 12:6
Where the country of origin of the work is not an EEA state and the author of the work is not a national of an EEA state, the duration of copyright is that to which the work ...

Hi, I've been downloading books recently from the Guthenburg Project, a US database of books that are in the public domain there, and other similiar sites.
One set of books I was considering downloading from the site were part of the Barsoom series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 5 of these books ...