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Re:Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies a... by lstamour on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:56AM (#11681404)
An explanation is given here: http://scaapt.org/archives/1286

> "You may ask why the series is being retired. The original producers (Intelecom) do not have the staff or the information available to locate all the third party rights holders of the additional footage and rights to that footage has expired. Therefore, it must be taken out of distribution."

I imagine that unless unknown rights-holders pull them off YouTube (as they apparently haven't yet...) then it will still be available some places.

The above page also notes the availability of https://www.learner.org/courses/physics/ which includes 11 videos.

Re:Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies a... by hackuser on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:50PM (#11684853)
Our intellectual property system gets in the way again. Why don't all the limited government, anti-regulatory people complain about this?