For the past two years BSAC - the British Screen Advisory Committee - has given me free membership. As they put it to me "You have a different way at looking at things and we need that voice"......
Yesterday, I attended a Q&A chaired by Richard Hooper who has been charged with examining the feasibility of a Digital Copyright Exchange and has called for Evidence. So our session was to see what exactly he wanted from our members.
I spent much of the two hours just listening to the music....
Near the end I put in my two pennyworth.
I asked whether if we were creating the British Library today whether beyond its legal deposit duties for the printed word - well, at least, books, magazines, some web sites and national newspapers (though it has also persuaded many regional newspapers to deposit their archive) - we would ask them to include video, film, games and television programmes........But I didn't stop there. Could they be the deposit for all the rights of all these products so everyone would know who the rights owners were?
Just a thought....