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BBC planning to open source its archives
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), one of the world's largest public service networks, will shortly launch what it hails as a pioneering new approach to public access rights, and it is turning to the open source community to contribute to its successful rollout.
Announced last year, the Creative Archive initiative aims to put the entire archive of BBC material online. The first phase will launch this fall, with about 2,000 factual clips of up to three minutes long, mainly from its natural history archive.
The licensing model will be based on Creative Commons. This would allow material to be downloaded and used for whatever purpose on whatever device, so long as it is not put to commercial use.
Source: Newsforge.com
