Editorial responsibility for webcams
Whoever owns the webcam and the feed, we should retain editorial responsibility for monitoring the output if it appears on our site. This should lie with the person who has editorial responsibility for the BBC site or platform on which the output appears. The level of monitoring will partly depend on the circumstances:
- a producer should be in a position to cut the feed from a live webcam if necessary
- we should normally only transmit live pictures from a webcam at times when we have the resources to monitor the feed. However, it would be reasonable to continue to transmit pictures from traffic webcams even when the pictures are not monitored by us, provided we are satisfied that the police, or other responsible authority, are monitoring live to an appropriate standard.