Help the Beeb put EVERYTHING online


I'm always hearing whinging from the Brits about their 'TV License / Tax,' but after reading this, I couldn't help thinking that I TOO would pay the tax if it allowed me access to the content. What about it BBC, will you open up your licensing to the 'terrestrially challenged?'

http://www.public-domain.org/?q=node/view/36

Last August, Greg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC, announced that the BBC would soon launch its "Creative Archive" -- a project to put much of the Beeb's programs on the Internet, so that the licence-paying British public could have access to it.

This is the most ambitious project of its type ever conceived. A fully realized Creative Archive could transform the BBC's precious, deep archive into a springboard for a new century of participatory creation by Britons. This project stands to make the BBC the banner-carrier for public service broadcasting in the information age, but if the BBC bends to pressure to scale back its ambition, the Creative Archive could amount to little more than brochureware and failed promise.


Posted: Wed - June 2, 2004 at 11:22 PM            

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