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First Few Doctor Who Episodes May Fall To Public Domain Next Year
First time accepted submitter wmr89502270 writes "Doctor Who is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The special The Day of The Doctor will be broadcast simultaneously in over 75 countries and hundreds of cinemas in the UK. Across the world the hotly anticipated special episode will be screened simultaneously in full 3D. According to Copyright law of the United Kingdom, the copyright in a broadcast program expires 50 years from the end of the year in which it is broadcast, which means the first episodes will fall to public domain next year."
The missing episodes don't start until a few serials in. There are decent quality copies of all of the first three serials floating around. Almost all of the Second Doctor Patrick Troughton episodes are missing though. A few of the key ones are intact--"The Tomb of the Cybermen" and "The War Games" for example--but for the most part his entire run is gone.
If only we had a way to go back and keep this happening, by using some sort of "time machine"...
Obviously, we must immediately extend copyright legislation everywhere else in the world, retroactively, to be AT LEAST what is enacted in the US or whatever the longest limits are anywhere in the world, otherwise...civilization will end.
And we don't want that.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
70 years after Doctor Who dies is a long fucking time from now :(
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