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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 07:05:45PM +0000, Richard Kreiss thus spoke:
> Mark, your last statement is only true if the BBC owns the rights to the
> theme music.
>
> As I have not checked this and from what you have written above, you may
> be aware who actually hold the copyright to the music.

They do.  It's how they keep getting new arrangements of it, from the
60s through the most recent season, can play it at the Proms, etc., on a
whim.  It originated at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, under Grainer and
Derbyshire.  It's since undergone any number of rearrangements, the last
3-4 of which were done for the programme itself by Murray Gold.  There are
a bunch of official rearrangements specifically for the programme over the
years, but the one constant is the BBC.

There's no way the BBC would be using it on the scale they do if they
-didn't- hold the copyright.  You'd have to understand the battle with
Terry Nation (and later, his estate) over the Daleks to understand exactly
how the BBC are about using other people's copyrighted work.

I also happened to have, back in the late 80s, the 7" vinyl of the Peter
Davison era mix, and that was published by the BBC.

TTBOMK, the BBC have -always- held the copyright to that theme.

mark->
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