6 July 2004
BBC Pioneers New Approach To Public Access Rights In Digital Age
MLA is part of the consultative external panel for the BBC's Creative Archive initiative - which sat for the first time at the end of May.
The BBC Creative Archive, first announced by the former BBC Director General, Greg Dyke, at the 2003 Edinburgh Television Festival, launches this autumn and will allow people to download clips of BBC factual programmes from bbc.co.uk for non-commercial use, keep them on their PCs, manipulate and share them, so making the BBC's archives more accessible to licence fee payers.
The initiative also has broader public service ambitions to pioneer a new approach to public access rights in the digital age. Paul Gerhardt, Joint Director, BBC Creative Archive explains: "We want to work in partnership with other broadcasters and public sector organisations to create a public and legal domain of audio visual material for the benefit of everyone in the UK. We hope the BBC Creative Archive can establish a model for others to follow, providing material for the new generation of digital creatives and stimulating the growth of the creative culture in the UK."
If successful, the BBC suggests it may, over time, be able to release more programme genres - sport, music, drama - and possibly longer formats to the public
Other panel members include Channel 4; the British Film Institute; the British Library; ITN; JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee); The National Archives; the Natural History Museum; the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council; senior figures from the independent production industry; BBC Worldwide and Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, chair of the Creative Commons project.
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