The public interest would appear to outweigh the narrow rights of the licensing office here.
And it's not as if we don't have hours of footage from those places at the same resolution already so whatever horse they're trying to keep in the barn has already bolted.
> The public interest would appear to outweigh the narrow rights of the ....
If only that was ever used to make regulation. We might have a decent copyright law by now in the US. I still blame Micky Mouse and Disney for all bad copy right law.
I think that that is better explained by the power of money in American politics than anything else. On another note, copyright laws in the rest of the world aren't that much better which means that even that is only a partial explanation at best.
But I take your point that public interest is rarely the thing foremost on politicians minds when they create their laws.
>And it's not as if we don't have hours of footage from those places at the same resolution already so whatever horse they're trying to keep in the barn has already bolted.
That would suggest that public interest would not outweigh the rights of the licensing holders.
And it's not as if we don't have hours of footage from those places at the same resolution already so whatever horse they're trying to keep in the barn has already bolted.