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BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative Commons
powcom writes "The BBC appears to be delivering on its promise of releasing its material to the public - they're modelling their licensing on Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig is very excited and so I imagine, will a lot of other people be - rightly." This brief article also mentions yesterday's release of
Creative Commons' 2.0 licenses -- well worth reading about.
Cable news channel MSNBC announced today that they will be releasing their archives under the Windows XP EULA.
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on a rainy day.
It's 104/year and you're paying 8/mo.? I guess that you don't like your kids. :)
Or maybe you Brits have Smarch?
I want mah Doctor Who!
That I can finally rewatch "Are You Being Served?" which played on my local PBS station until the video tapes fell apart?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
What about us over here in the USA? We like Monty Python as much as the next bloke! When do we get our hands on the free BBC archives?
Don't make us come over there and liberate your asses!
Wanted: witty unique signature. Must be willing to relocate.
Dude, look up. That shadow is the point going right over your head.
Here's a few quotations to be going on with:
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
~George Bernard Shaw
PATRIOTISM, n.
Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
I thought that the license fees for those shows went to Endemol, RDF Media, and Banyan Productions -- you know, the folks who produced the original shows for the BBC in the first place.
I mean, let's say that one of those companies produces a show where Cathy Rogers throws Alan Titchmarsh and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen out of an airplane and they have to assemble a decorative parachute from scrap materials before they hit the ground. If TLC picks it up and has Jesse James toss Hildi Santo-Tomas and Mikey Teutul out of a plane, does the Beeb really get a cut of the action? Sweeeeeet deal, if so.
That's Ms. Grammar Nazi, and "All the jeans' have holes" is incorrect.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Hot damn I'd love to see a show like that. I've seen enough of these garden/home/anything makeover shows to last me an eternity.
Don't forget the dislike of the previous government. And the one before that. And the one before that as well. One of the best features of the BBC is that it contrives to be disliked by *every* government, *and* by whichever party is in opposition. They must be doing something right.
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
government-created
CROWN-charter. Hi, welcome to the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland. Meet our head of state, Queen Elizibeth II. Did you receieve your complimentary copy of the Magna Carta? Good good.
This isn't the U.S. The Crown is the head of state, not the Government. The Crown created both Parliment (Refer to your copy of the Magna Carta) and the British Broadcasting Coproration. The Crown is the boss in this town. The Prime Minister and the BBC both answer to the Crown.
I'd draw you a PowerPoint presentation with the full Organisation Chart but Slashdot wont let me, and the colours would only serve to distract you..