Thomas Cup 2004 Men's Single on DVD

[ck]

Saw it is on ebay.

The link is
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3683486357&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

[robinhood]

ck,

I bought the dvd off the seller offline. He has a lot of selection to choose from. Good source of badminton footage! recommended.

[Martin Dew-Hattens]

You want to be carefull. The IBF and the host nation normally have the rights to distribute and sell videos.

If this is not an agent of the IBF then somebody is breaking the law !! (and you are too by buying it)

[robinhood]

Hmmm Martin, good point. i will check with the seller.

[ck]

Isn't the copyright belong to the company that film the event????

[rickys]

The really irritating thing about all this is that you contact the IBF about obtaining footage & guess what? It's not viable for them to produce too many copies or hold old footage.

People in the end get frustrated & just swap copies with each other; however I believe selling for profit changes things.

Technically, anything you record off TV, I believe you are entitled to use for whatever you want almost, as long as it's not commercial - that is, you could give copies for training purposes/educational use.

Then again I might be completely wrong.

[JoeWright]

I believe neither IBF or BAofE footage is owned by them respectively. Its owned by the production companies that film it (make your own opinions up about that!).

Usually recording off the TV would be regarded as copyright infringement. However, I think in the UK there's a legal grace period of about 6 weeks. You are not allowed to give away copies, etc., even on a non-comerical basis.

One problem with IBF/BAofE DVDs that I've seen is that they're single layer whereas most DVDs are dual layer. This gives half the available space for content. The result is they provide little coverage and do not represent value for money.

[gsk]

Curious, technically can a broadcasting co. claim copyright to something they dont have?

Eg. if someone tells BBC to dig out 70s 80s recorrds of AE, they will be unable to retrieve them

as the tapes have been erased and recorded over. What little left is owned by a few individuals.

Led Zepellin did not have any of their live performances from 60s 70s recorded, in the end they had

to buy them back from individuals who taped footage from the TV.