The phone call all TV producers fear
Copyright law can be a minefield " as the BBC found out over Room at the TopThe sudden removal from the BBC4 schedule last week of a new dramatisation of John Braine's novel Room at the Top, following a dispute over whether the broadcast rights had been secured, is an example of the worst luck a production can have. To disappointed viewers, it may also have seemed spectacularly incompetent. Surely they should have…