The Creative Commons movement has become hugely influential over a short space of time – the fact that I’ve sat in meetings discussing the licences at work is testament to this. The BBC made big waves when it announced that it was going to open up access to some of its archives, but eventually ended [...]
By chance, I stumbled onto the ‘Teachers TV‘ channel on my Freeview box before going to bed this evening. I was aiming to quickly check in on BBC News 24, which is channel 40, but for some reason the set-top box seems to have re-numbered the channels so that Teachers TV is what you get [...]
I reported a couple of days ago about the BBC Creative Archive winning a BAFTA (you can see a photo of the award on Ben Metcalfe’s blog). Well since then, they’ve rolled out their latest project, which puts archive material on some of the ‘nations and regions’ sites. This is all well and good, however [...]
The BBC’s ‘Open Earth‘ Creative Archive project has won a BAFTA for ‘Interactive Innovation’. This is good news for the project, which released a load of nature-related video and audio clips under a Creative-Commons inspired license, and will hopefully act as a spur for the BBC to get on with releasing a far greater volume [...]
The BBC have made some nature audio/visual content available under their Creative Archive license. There’s 230 pieces, which feels fairly substantial, and at first glance it seems that there’s some interesting bits in there.
I love this idea – the Arts Council England is funding two artist placements at the BBC, one of whom will be working with Creative Archive licensed material, releasing their work back into the wild, with the other having more unrestricted access to BBC archive footage, releasing their works internally to the BBC only. I [...]