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British Groups Launch Creative Archive License

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the creative-commons-sans-serial-numbers dept.

icerunner wrote in to mention that several British institutions have banded together to create the Creative Archive License. From the announcement: "BBC, Channel 4, British Film Institute and OU (Open University) issue call to action for Creative Archive Licence. Media and arts organisations, universities and libraries have today been urged to join an innovative new scheme designed to give the public access to footage and sound from some of the largest film, television and radio archives in the UK, as well as specially commissioned material." We've previously covered this as The BBC Creative Archive.

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  1. Playing to the Long Tail by jessmeister · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This really plays into The Long Tail scenario that is so often spoken of these days. I wonder how long before the major portals starts making deals with these owners of massive amounts of content. When a revenue model is established around this release of content we will see things really pick up. I am betting on instream advertising as the way they do it.

  2. But what about satire by j()nty · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From the summary

    The Creative Archive content is provided to allow you to get creative with content, not for campaigning, soapboxing or to defame others! So don't use it to promote political, charitable, or other campaigning purposes and remember to treat others and their work in the way that you'd expect them to treat you and your work...with respect!

    But if I want to satirise a piece covered by this license the original author could get all huffy and claim that I am defaming them.

    Let the lawyers arguments begin...

  3. Makes Me Proud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, I'm so proud to be British at seeing this news.

    Also proud to be paying my fee to the BBC. The quality and integrity of our media is improved and upheld over and over again because of their unique position and charter.

    I wonder what formats will be used to distribute it though - will it be Mpeg or perhaps the new system the BBC have been devloping? So long as it's not WMV or RealMedia like the BBC currently seem to offer then I'll be happy!

  4. Re:Very ex-Catherdra by TobascoKid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For instance, why ban commercial use? To prevent competition? Sure... but competition is what makes the living culture.

    Because the majority, if not all, the content has been payed for by the British taxpayer. Why should the taxpayer foot the bill for somebody's commercial use of the material?

    However, the BBC and C4 already have extensive commercial operations - the idea being that commercial users would pay for what they use and then that money gets sent back into the public services.

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  5. Re:The influence of Open Source by JoaoPinheiro · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, it certainly is. It seems like things are getting back to the way they were before crazy patent and copyright laws started coming around.

    This is what leads to development and evolution.
    Current patent and copyright laws only lead to the development of monopolies (which in turn lead to stagnation - no competition, no need to evolve).

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  6. Fantastic! by The+Dodger · · Score: 2, Interesting
    This is cool for two reasons. First, this is extending the concept of open source to content which, even if it has been done before, has never been done on this large a scale.

    Secondly, it's a step towards the BBC making their programming available for download. The BBC produce a huge amount of programming and, while they make a fair amount of money out of selling DVDs, videos (stuff like Blackadder and Doctor Who) and tapes/CDs (e.g. the HHGTTG radio series), there's a heck of a lot of other stuff that it doesn't make commercial sense to publish in that manner - e.g. programmes like Horizon and Top Gear ).

    I bet the biggest problem with putting programmes like those on the Archive will be the licencing terms for stuff like incidental music and events rights (like for sports and so on), which are presumably all currently based on the concept of broadcast, with extra payments for repeats. I wonder if they'll have to strip out anything that's not the original, complete creation of the contributing organisations.


    D.

  7. Re:Very ex-Catherdra by Morosoph · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Because the majority, if not all, the content has been payed for by the British taxpayer. Why should the taxpayer foot the bill for somebody's commercial use of the material?
    Because the taxpayer gets extra utility for no extra funds, which means, of course, that they don't foot the bill, for the bill's already been paid!
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  8. Re:Only for UK by r4bb1t · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Super. Another way to prevent me from getting (at least, in my opinion) less biased news from outside the US. I try to read/watch/listen to the BBC as much as I can here in the States, given that the US media doesn't so much cover the rest of the world. I would have looked forward to being able to sift through the archives to see what I've been missing.

  9. Re:P2P + UK only ? by aslate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They have a FAQ entry saying this:

    I heard that Creative Archive will be using P2P technology. Isn't that illegal?

    So they are using P2P methods of distribution.