British Groups Launch Creative Archive License

icerunner wrote in to mention that several British institutions have banded together to create the Creative Archive License. From the announcement: "BBC, Channel 4, British Film Institute and OU (Open University) issue call to action for Creative Archive Licence. Media and arts organisations, universities and libraries have today been urged to join an innovative new scheme designed to give the public access to footage and sound from some of the largest film, television and radio archives in the UK, as well as specially commissioned material." We've previously covered this as The BBC Creative Archive.

Only for UK

[m_dob]

This service is only intended for people who have IPs in the UK. Finally, a reason to be proud to be a British geek...

downloads will be limited to UK only

[Anonymous Coward]

Note that all the files will be restricted by IP. Meaning that outside the UK, we won't be able to download anything (without a UK based proxy)

from the faq: [bbc.co.uk] The Creative Archive will not be using DRM around the content. The BBC's pilot site will be using a technology called GEOIP filtering to ensure that content sourced directly from the BBC will only be available to UK citizens.

Re:The influence of Open Source

[Anonymous Coward]

This is clearly down to the philosophy of Open Source (or however you like to phrase it, depends if you are RMS or not)

Have you ever actually LISTENED to what RMS is saying? The difference between open source and free software isn't in which words you use, there are actual, significant differences between the two philosophies.

Open source is about improving the quality of service through an open development model. Free software is about providing the user with freedom to do what they like with their software. There are overlaps, but they have different goals.

All you do when you refer to RMS' points as mere differences in phrasing is prove that you've heard the argument, but it went in one ear and out the other without you understanding it.

BBC Creative Archive reference articles

[Anonymous Coward]

Since Slashdot is visited mostly by Americans, I shall supply some reference articles discussing the BBC Creative Archive (which was basically an idea presented by BBC's ex-director general Greg Dike suggesting to regroup and distribute all of BBC's past, present and future media under the Creative Commons licence).

• The original press release [bbc.co.uk];
• BBC Creative Archive to be based on Creative Commons [digital-lifestyles.info];
• another detailed article [lnreview.co.uk].

A whole bunch of other articles [google.fr] are available.

Re:Only for UK

[gowen]

A rip-off of rockford, a french cheese and, of course, vastly superior to blue stilton.

Right... I'm gonna take cheese advice from a man who can't spell Roquefort.

And whoo seems unaware that Stilton and Roquefort are made from cow's milk and sheep's milk, respectively. And because of that, do not actually taste terribly similar (roquefort is considerably sharper, and crumblier). Me, I prefer Shropshire Blue and Saint Agur.

Europeans ahead in Sonny Bono race to bottom

[tepples]

The European Union had a copyright term extension years before the United States had the Bono Act [wikipedia.org]. In fact, the EU term extension directive [wikipedia.org] re-copyrighted works that had already entered the public domain, unlike the Bono Act.