[Rumori] BBC source material

[Matthew Biederman]

too bad we have to be in the UK to get access!

bests
matthew

On 14-Dec-05, at 12:15 PM, Bob Boster wrote:

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> bb> Apologies if someone else has posted this already.  And for the 
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>> D I G I T A L   M U S I C   N E W S
>>> online at digitalmusicnews.com
>>
>> Daily Snapshot
>> Wednesday, December 14, 2005
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>> BBC Opens News Archives, Encourages Creative Use
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> "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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Story by news analyst Richard Menta.
>>
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