BBC Creative Archive trial a success
The BBC Creative Archive started thier first trial with Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra this week, opening its archives to make programme extracts available for download, manipulation and sharing under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence (based on the Creative Commons archive).
The footage is taken from a whole host of BBC programmes and includes a wealth of material covering natural history, wildlife, science, locations, art and more. Gems include shots of cityscapes, sunsets, seascapes and other stunning visuals with, importantly, many more clips to come over the next few months.
Unfortunately the content is limited only to the UK public. People within the UK can download this material now from the Radio 1 Superstar VJs site.
Comments
elliott:
i made an interesting discovery related to the BBC archive today while researching for an assignment. the notorious and very different etoy.CORPORATION, the group who took on eToys in a domain name dispute that would result in the first publicly reported online activism campaign and sparked the interest in hacktivism as a cultural phenomenon, came out in support of the creative archive: "etoy.CORPORATION applauds this move by one of the most respected - and (as opposed to some other news outlets) fiercly independent media corporations in the world"
their post can be found here