Match Game 79 - Scraping The Bottom of the barrel for panelists?

[K.M. Richards]

Are you saying then that, for example, a Hart to Hart episode that was copyrighted in 1984 to Columbia Pictures Television had to have been made in that year (referencing this example of a copyright card from that show taken from the final-season DVD)?

Not "made", necessarily, but it has to be the year of publication. To quote the U.S. Copyright Office:

“Publication” is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.

To perform or display a work “publicly” means—

(1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered; or

(2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.

So that episode should have aired for the first time in 1984 to be compliant with copyright law.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Oh, and Buzzr this morning started running the MG78 week with the following celebrities:

David Doyle - Somers - CNR
Eva Gabor - Dawson - Betty White

 

[bmasters1981]

Not "made", necessarily, but it has to be the year of publication. To quote the U.S. Copyright Office:

“Publication” is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.

To perform or display a work “publicly” means—

(1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered; or

(2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.

So that episode should have aired for the first time in 1984 to be compliant with copyright law.

Thank you for a very informative response! I think that the portion of U.S. copyright law that you cited explains it very well what copyright is all about.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Thank you for a very informative response! I think that the portion of U.S. copyright law that you cited explains it very well what copyright is all about.

You're most welcome. I had to put that qualifier in to stay in context with the original post #9, because my answers from then until now did not take into account that the first episodes of MG (and just about any game show) for a year would have to have been recorded in December of the preceding year. Copyright law would, as you now see, dictate that the year shown would correspond to the air date, not the taping one.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Oh, and Buzzr this morning started running the MG78 week with the following celebrities:

David Doyle - Somers - CNR
Eva Gabor - Dawson - Betty White

This morning (7/8, second episode), Buzzr started airing the week with these celebrities:

Nipsey Russell - Somers - CNR
Ethel Merman - Dawson - Flagg

I am fairly sure I did not see the previous week's episodes during GSN's run earlier this year.

 

[K.M. Richards]

This morning (7/8, second episode), Buzzr started airing the week with these celebrities:

Nipsey Russell - Somers - CNR
Ethel Merman - Dawson - Flagg

There was a reference at the end of "Friday's" show of Fannie not being available for the lower right seat for a while due to her being in a Broadway production. In the course of that, they said the show's air date was in April, if that helps Johnny O pinpoint where Fremantle has their sequencing for Buzzr.

Today (7/15), celebrity lineup was:

Tom Dreesen - Somers - CNR
Debralee Scott - Dawson - Bulifant