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April 13, 2005

Archival creativity

The BBC, Channel 4, the British Film Institute (BFI) and Britain’s Open University have jointly created  the creative archive licence, which goes beyond creating a legitimate way for UK residents to download programmes from those organisations.

Based on a flexible copyright scheme from the US called the creative commons, the idea is to give the public access to footage from the different archives which they can use to create new material, including “pepping up” a school project or to create a home movie or make their own music video.

Bleeding Edge has been musing on the following quote in the article

Given the global nature of the internet, limiting usage to UK residents will be difficult to control

Posted by cw at April 13, 2005 04:18 PM

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