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 BBC SAYS IT MUST KEEP COMMERCIAL RIGHTS
 The BBC has rebuffed a call from two   
 veteran screen writers to keep the     
 commercial rights to their programmjs. 
                                        
 "The retention of rights has to relate 
 to whoivjr finances the programmer,"   
 BBC Worldwide chief Bob Phillis said.  
                                        
 He pointed out that, in the BBC's case,
 finances came out of the licence fee.  
                                        
 Giving the annual MacTaggart lecture,  
 Birds of a Feather writers Laurence    
 Marks and Maurice Gran had also called 
 for the abolition of the licence fee.  
                                        
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