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BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative Commons

Posted by timothy on from the way-to-go dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Left Hand: "What you up to Right Hand?" by Carnildo · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the same BBC that forced Real to provide a free, no-nag, no-spyware, less-evil version of the player.

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    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
  2. Funding is done by licence fee - links by RidiculousPie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Further information on running costs is available in this document (Starting at about Table 14) and this document
    According to the second document licence fee revenue is 2,659million pounds.
    License fee information on the bbc website

    TV Licensing Website

    To summarise:
    Standard license fee is 121 pounds(colour television)
    Black and White Television is 40.50 pounds
    Registered blind people can apply for a discount of up to 50%
    People over the age of 75 do not need a license

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