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Rights to Torchwood
Who owns the rights to Torchwood?
Russell T Davies or the BBC? |
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The BBC owns the rights because it asked RTD to create it while he was on salary.
If RTD had written the first episode as a freelancer he'd own all the rights. |
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The BBC owns the rights because it asked RTD to create it while he was on salary.
If RTD had written the first episode as a freelancer he'd own all the rights. If it wasn't actually called Torchwood when it was conceived it was the same thing in practice. I'm pretty sure that RTD said himself that he created it in the years when DW was not on screen. |
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I thought he wrote it years before DW was commissioned and made it to screen.
If it wasn't actually called Torchwood when it was conceived it was the same thing in practice. I'm pretty sure that RTD said himself that he created it in the years when DW was not on screen. |
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Whenever he wrote it, submission, commission and production all occurred as part of his work on Doctor Who, no?
Like I said, I don't know. I just guess that it may have worked out along those lines. He said something I remember about him asking why couldn't there be a British Buffy (Or was it Angel?) and had something like that in mind but with a sci-fi team. |
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JB said RTD had to sign off on his TW novel Exodus Code. And I remember Big Finish also said (at a Q& A) that RTD has to approve their stories as well.
So RTD must maintain some copyright (maybe to some concepts and characters) |
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The OOD are credited as "Created by Russell T Davies" if they are used in episodes, so he probably has some sign off on the use of the characters, but TW was a BBC production so must ultimately belong to them.
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The OOD are credited as "Created by Russell T Davies" if they are used in episodes, so he probably has some sign off on the use of the characters, but TW was a BBC production so must ultimately belong to them.
Portraits: c) BBC Cover images: c) BBC 2012 Series created by Russell T Davies Original series broadcast on BBC Television. Format: c) BBC 2005 Torchwood and Torchwood Logo are trademarks of the BBC and are used under licence. |
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So it looks like the Beeb own the rights but RTD gets a credit.
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