That's an excellent question.
My understanding is that it's largely a money issue, ultimately, in terms of additional residual payments that would need to be made, so they're in the ironic situation of having the rights to a lot of their own programming, but the additional dollars involved would, in their view, be prohibitive and make it virtually impossible for them to broadcast it.
It might be a useful recommendation for this committee to have a look at this idea. Could the various parties involved actually get together and see how this could be facilitated in some way? My understanding is that it has been looked at in the past, and the results have been ultimately a bit of a gridlock situation.
You're absolutely right, I think, in terms of the changing world. It would be amazing to find an equitable way of making this programming available on multiple platforms, which is certainly the direction they've gone in the U.K. in terms of the BBC's own archives.