CBS Refuses To Preserve Jack Benny Footage

goosman writes "The president of the International Jack Benny Fan Club had the opportunity to review some holdings of the CBS vaults while assisting them with some transfers. In the vaults she found 25 shows on film that were unreleased, but in the public domain. The IJBFC offered to pay for the digitization and preservation of these shows; they got a letter of enthusiastic support from the Benny estate. CBS has so far refused to allow this preservation to happen." BoingBoing and TechDirt have both covered this act of cultural destruction.

Comments

Re:Not that my opinion matters

[FauxPasIII]

It's called "inter-species erotica", fucko.

Re:revoke ALL their copyrights

[CorporateSuit]

That makes them their works. I'm with fandingo; they are being supreme jerks about this, but it's their property and they can do as they please with it.

Ooooh, so they can have all their cake and eat it too? Bullocks. Then my computer is my property so I can do anything I want with it - including downloading everything CBS has ever broadcast, and then I can burn copies of it all with MY dvd burners and sell those copies in bulk because they're MY DVDs with which I can do whatever I want. CBS doesn't like that? Tough Titties. They have only their own greed to blame, since they set the rules of this game -- if you have it in your house, then no one else has claim to it. If they so blatantly ignore the owners of public domain (the public), then the public has the right to ignore their ownership.

And if CBS wants to sue me, they'll have to wait in line. I'm sure the government is going to have me very busy when they find most of my tax form [REDACTED] and then me expecting a 1000% tax refund.