I guess, to be 100% honest, I'm seeing what you're characterizing as "pretty duplicitous" as "how this often works." If I were to boycott the producers of any media that engaged in sleazy practices to basically avoid having to pay for rights or royalties, well, I don't think I'd have a lot of corporate media sources left. My personal favorite at the moment is Sony/Columbia Pictures stealing the story of a movie they'll be releasing in the coming months from a novel, relying on the fact that copyright claims by individual authors against distributors/studios are almost never successful due to the comparative resources each has.
So, yeah, it's shady. And I get why people wouldn't like it or want to want to watch it on that basis. I guess I just don't find it particularly shadier than what generally goes on with these kinds of transactions (or surprising that CBS would be all "hey is there a way we could do this without having to pay money"). And given my disinclination against treating BBC as a wholly original corporate author, those particular facts still don't really sway me very much.
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Date: 2012-03-21 07:42 pm (UTC)So, yeah, it's shady. And I get why people wouldn't like it or want to want to watch it on that basis. I guess I just don't find it particularly shadier than what generally goes on with these kinds of transactions (or surprising that CBS would be all "hey is there a way we could do this without having to pay money"). And given my disinclination against treating BBC as a wholly original corporate author, those particular facts still don't really sway me very much.