BBC Creative Archive pilot launches
w00t! At long last the (admittedly modest) pilot of the BBC Creative Archive has launched. This is the project to put all the material in the BBC's vaults online under a license that allows British people (who paid for it all in the first place) to remix all that cultural history.The BBC has released the first TV clips from its archive onto the internet for people to "rip, mix and share".Link (Thanks, Rad!)Almost 100 clips, from shows such as Walking With Beasts and Tomorrow's World, are for the UK public to use for free in their own creative works.
The BBC hopes to foster innovation by letting anyone re-use its material for personal and educational purposes under the Creative Archive Licence.
BBC Radio 1 launched the scheme with a competition to produce a music video.
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Cory Doctorow
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* Feb 9, 2012, DeKalb, IL: Day of Doctorow, NIU
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