Peel sessions and legal gubbins

[ken garner]

Yes, i think it's probably something like that. Technically after every broadcast and single 
repeat, every contributor to the BBC has to be recontracted - that's why, i think, you can 
only listen again on the web as it were to 'one repeat' in a 7 day period, in theory. Now the 
vast majority of bands, famous or obscure, are not going to stand in the way of any 
rebroadcasts or small fees. But some might, and simply refuse the recontract for another 
airing. Call it a pathetic attempt to maintain the aloofness and mystery of their artist. I'll 
ask Hanna at R1 if she knows....

k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>