The TV station with tapes it could not airSourced
The programme tapes arrived.
The broadcast rights had not.
Former staff recalled that, during financial trouble in the early 1990s, US station WTVX received programmes on tape from another station and aired them without rights. Distributors sought an injunction, and a court later found willful copyright infringement.
Possession of a tape
was no licence to broadcast.
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