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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. Re:downloads will be limited to UK only by CrosbieFitch · · Score: 0, Troll

    So brain dead! So petty.

    Ooh, we can't let anyone outside the UK see it...

    Well, the US was first:

    UK and other non-US people can't look at this site:
    http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/

    Boo hoo!

    Unless of course you go via a proxy, e.g.:
    http://www.the-cloak.com/Cloaked/+cfg=32/ht tp%3A// www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do

    Won't these people ever learn???

    The Internet is a bloody network, not a geographically located exhibition hall!

  2. P2P + UK only ? by sla291 · · Score: 0, Troll

    One thing doesn't make sense at all :

    Why can't I use material from the Creative Archive overseas?

    The Creative Archive is currently funded only for use within the UK. The BBC's pilot site will be using a technology called GEOIP filtering to ensure that content sourced directly from the BBC will only be available to UK citizens.

    Still, they plan to use P2P. Come on where's the GEOIP feature in BitTorrent ?