How can I share this BBC piece on blogging? November 14, 2005 12:39 PM   Subscribe

The BBC recently did a television news piece about blogging. I have recorded and encoded it. I'd like to post it to MetaFilter, but I'm worried this falls under "self-linking", since I would obviously have to host it myself. Does it count or not?
If it does, where else should I post it?
posted by Mwongozi to Etiquette/Policy at 12:39 PM (17 comments total)

Since my blog wasn't consulted on this, I say don't post it.

Seriously, would this be good for MeFi Projects?
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 12:43 PM on November 14, 2005


Mefi Projects (in case you didn't see it).
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 12:50 PM on November 14, 2005


Yep.

If you had a link to the story on a site you weren't connected with (say... a BBC site), that'd be another matter.

Also: do you have the right to post copyrighted material from the BBC?
posted by jpburns at 12:55 PM on November 14, 2005


Also: do you have the right to post copyrighted material from the BBC?

I'm not sure, but my guess is "probably". All license fee payers in the UK are of course entirely entitled to watch it, but the BBC rebroadcasts news packages like this one all over the world, so I don't see much wrong with it.
posted by Mwongozi at 12:58 PM on November 14, 2005


MeFi Projects doesn't seem at all appropriate to me. It's not something I've made or created, it's just recorded off the TV...
posted by Mwongozi at 12:59 PM on November 14, 2005


Agreed. I would post it, and within the post say you are just hosting it so you can share it.

You aren't shilling a product you have a stake in or anything.
posted by xammerboy at 1:01 PM on November 14, 2005


I think it's good to go, just try not to link to anything you host except the mp3 (or whatever) itself. Mention in the first comment that the .mp3 is a sort of self-link.

As always, if you back it up with more interesting links, you'll be less prone to criticism.
posted by Marquis at 1:05 PM on November 14, 2005


You can post it at MetaChat.
posted by sciurus at 1:06 PM on November 14, 2005


Just post it, if it's really interesting.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:20 PM on November 14, 2005


What is this blogging thing all the youngsters are talking about? Does it involve pornography in some way?
posted by cyphill at 1:23 PM on November 14, 2005


I'm not sure, but my guess is "probably". All license fee payers in the UK are of course entirely entitled to watch it, but the BBC rebroadcasts news packages like this one all over the world, so I don't see much wrong with it.

Er, more like definitely not. Unless you have a licensing agreement with the BBC, and have payed them for the rights to re-broadcast it. The BBC doesn't rebroadcast stuff by overseas TV companies ripping it and sticking it on their channel!

And if it's made by an independent production company for the BBC, they'd be a lot more likely to send mathowie an angry letter with Scary Legal Stuff in it. (I hosted some excerpts from a Channel 4 show once, assuming it was fair use because I was commenting on them, and was told to take them down in no uncertain terms within a week of posting them, on threat of legal action.)

Maybe just post a link to UKNova when it shows up there, or stick it on another tracker yourself?
posted by jack_mo at 1:24 PM on November 14, 2005


Just post it, if it's really interesting.

Oh well, in that case, ignore previous. Maybe I'm just a scaredy cat!
posted by jack_mo at 1:24 PM on November 14, 2005


Posted
posted by Mwongozi at 1:27 PM on November 14, 2005


Oh, I didn't get that it was just a wee news snippet, thought you meant a whole programme. Good stuff.
posted by jack_mo at 1:53 PM on November 14, 2005


Off-topic: What device/software are you using for video capture, Mwongozi? I was pretty impressed by the quality of that clip.
posted by chrismear at 1:56 PM on November 14, 2005


It was recorded from a digital terrestrial broadcast with a Topfield TF5800 receiver, then transcoded from its native MPEG-2 format (the format it's broadcast in - no "capturing" necessary) to H.264 using MPEG Streamclip for the Mac.
posted by Mwongozi at 2:10 PM on November 14, 2005


Sweet. I didn't even know things like that existed. Hellooooo wishlist...
posted by chrismear at 2:38 PM on November 14, 2005


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