Friday, April 15, 2005
Other big news this week: BBC's Creative Archive
In a new development in the Creative Commons Space, the BBC/Channel 4/Open University/British Film Institute "creative archive" license launched this week. The idea is:
'The Creative Archive is a BBC led initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives in a way that allows the British public to find, share, watch, listen and re-use the archive as a fuel for their own creative endeavours. In other words, you can rip, mix and share the BBC.'One interesting point made in some of the commentary is that the BBC license is not 'interoperable' with the Creative Commons licenses. I can't help but wonder what the implications of that are. It goes to the heart of one of the issues that was discussed in last year's conference at UNSW 'Unlocking IP' - one of the issues with Creative Commons is the possible proliferation of different, competing, and even inconsistent license terms. One the one hand you want people to have the freedom to say what others can do with their stuff. On the other hand the more different license terms are out there, the more trouble non-lawyers have in understanding it all, and the more trouble people are going to have doing what Creative Commons is meant to encourage them to do - create.
The website is here: Creative Archive License Group.
Via Copyfight, a couple of links to more background:
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