[IP] Taped at the BBC: Can the Beeb put its entire archive on the Web?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:49:09 +0900
> From: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
> Subject: Taped at the BBC: Can the Beeb put its entire archive on the Web?
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> Interesting stuff.  For IP?
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> Adam
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> Taped at the BBC
> Can the Beeb put its entire archive on the Web?
> By Paul Boutin
> Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 4:24 PM PT
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> For those of us still debating whether to shell out the 40-odd bucks for 
> Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection on DVD, BBC Director-General Greg 
> Dyke may have settled the matter this weekend. At the end of his speech to 
> an annual TV industry conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dyke announced 
> that the Beeb plans to put its enormous TV and radio archives online and 
> to allow anyone to download them --free-- for non-commercial use. "Under a 
> simple licensing system, we will allow users to adapt BBC content for 
> their own use," Dyke said. "We are calling this the BBC Creative Archive."
>
> (URL <http://slate.msn.com/id/2087512/> for rest.)
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