[Rumori] BBC source material

[Bob Boster]

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>D I G I T A L   M U S I C   N E W S
> > online at digitalmusicnews.com
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>Daily Snapshot
>Wednesday, December 14, 2005
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>BBC Opens News Archives, Encourages Creative Use
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>The BBC officially announced that, for a trial period, they will open up
>their video new archives to the UK public. The Beeb is putting over 80 news
>reports online that present key events of the last 50 years, all for free.
>This includes coverage of the 1966 World Cup final, the WTC attack, and the
>fall of the Berlin Wall. The move is another example of how content
>providers are repurposing their material for the web, something that has
>taken on a new dimension following the introduction of the video iPod. What
>makes the project particularly unique is that the BBC is encouraging users
>not just to watch these iconic moments in history, but to create something
>else with them.
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>"You are welcome to download the clips, watch them, and use them to create
>something unique," invites the BBC's Open News Archive site. "This is a
>pilot and we want to understand your creative needs. We'd like to see your
>productions and showcase some of the most interesting ones we receive." The
>pilot hopes to identify the varying ways users can absorb and utilize
>content, giving insight into how the BBC could best serve the public with
>their vast archive going forward.
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>The experiment comes on of the heels of a similar program involving 100
>video clips from BBC Radio 1 called Superstar VJs, which began in September.
>Other archive projects will be announced in the coming months, all which
>will end on October, 2006 so that the BBC can evaluate the results. The call
>to creativity is being offered under the Creative Archive License, which
>lays out the parameters of permissible use. For example, all derivative
>works made from this content must be non-commercial and the license is only
>extended to residents of the UK. It will be interesting to see if the BBC's
>research will make any impression on American news providers. Like the BBC,
>various American broadcast and cable networks are sitting on decades of
>dated content, most which gathers dust in vaults. No one is sure if anyone
>can make any money from old clips, though the BBC's experiment may uncover
>new ways to repurpose archive content that are beneficial for both content
>holders and audiences.
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>Story by news analyst Richard Menta.
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