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Nick Reynolds Nick Reynolds | 11:15 UK time, Wednesday, 14 May 2008

There's been , (including the ) and some about Doctor Who knitting patterns.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Worldwide (the commercial arm of the ´óÏó´«Ã½) is quoted in . There's also a comment from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Worldwide on the .

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer was mentioned in yesterday's . (From Media Guardian)

And while we're on the subject:

"The ´óÏó´«Ã½, for its part, will insist that the kind of obsessive geekery that leads to iPlayer cracking is very much at the margins of iPlayer use and they are right" says .

The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Olinda project is mentioned in from Tim Zen's Blog Of Sparseness.

"The killer argument for Freesat, and the one that makes it intellectually respectable, is the high definition (HD) offering" .

Nick Reynolds is editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet Blog.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    A few ideas:
    1. Allow for small-scale fan production of items based on ´óÏó´«Ã½ shows, with a small fee per item paid to the ´óÏó´«Ã½. (The ´óÏó´«Ã½ would have to approve of the item's design, of course. Also, if the rights are shared between the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and others, like, say, the Terry Nation estate sharing the Dalek rights, the other rights holders would get a share of the fee.)
    2. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ should partner with companies like Zazzle or Cafe Press to allow for on-demand production of t-shirts based on ´óÏó´«Ã½ properties.
    3. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ should publish (or more likely license to other publishers) a pattern book for certain properties, containing both patterns (clothing (knitted/sewn), dolls (ditto) crafts, mock props, etc.) designed by staff at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ (such as Blue Peter makes), designed by the publisher's staff, or even approved designs submitted by fans. (After all, the old Doctor Who had a Pattern Book for sale, even if Michael Grade used it as a reason why he hated the show...)

  • Comment number 2.

    i was looking forward to my pair of donna mittens for xmas as well

  • Comment number 3.

    Does this mean that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ will be sued retrospectively by the owners of the intellectual property rights to Thunderbirds / Tracey Island model on Blue Peter?

    Is Blue Peter now band from model making?

    Where does this control freekery end?

    Shame on you ´óÏó´«Ã½

  • Comment number 4.

    The ´óÏó´«Ã½(TM) should approach Mazz ASAP and offer to licence the patterns for free. The best way stop other people from making money out of it is then to get Blue Peter(TM) to encourage millions of kids to take up knitting and make tens-of-millions of Dr Who(TM) dolls whereby the commercial value per-unit would be diminished down to so-much-wool. Would that keep the lawyers happy? I fear not - i'd get The Doctor(TM) to zap them all with his Sonic Screwdriver(TM).

  • Comment number 5.

    And, of course, the thought occurs that the people making money will already have the patterns anyway...

  • Comment number 6.

    Hmmmm. A monolithic organisation bent on the suppression of creativity and freedom of expression, ruthlessly putting down ordinary people with outrageous displays of corporate bullying and terrifying the Doctor's friends into submission.

    Is ´óÏó´«Ã½ Worldwide auditioning for a part in this year's Christmas Special?

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