[peel] Peel sessions and legal gubbins

[Martin Wheatley]

At 23:58 07/05/2008, you wrote:

>Does anybody know why certain sessions can't be requested for Marc
>Rileys Peel by Request slot? I remember him saying once that legal
>reasons prevented the airing of one of the Nirvana sessions. Surely if
>a group record a session for the BBC it becomes the Beeb's property
>doesn't it?
It's never the BBC's property.   An major label with a record contract with
an artist has the rights to that artist's output (all of it) during the period
of the contract (indie label contract are often a bit looser)
The BBC contract for the session gives the broadcast rights to it not
the ownership of it.  As far as the record company are concerned they
count as an outside producer.   Most BBC session contracts give them
unlimited rebroadcast rights but that is not necessarily the case -
some labels may have wanted sessions put out only once or twice