What is the Creative Archive
The Creative Archive is a BBC project to make its back archive of material available online. The plan emphasizes an open and accessible archive both technologically and legally.
Below you can find information about the BBC's plan. We would especially like to hear how you could use the Creative Archive be it for remixing making a film or just catching that classic episode from forty years ago.
What does the Creative Archive Offer
This is best explained by the BBC themselves:
- "Imagine being able to view and listen, and even download and own, extracts from the world's largest television and radio archive.
- .. For the first time, the BBC will open up its treasure chest of programmes to the public who own it and make its contents available to individuals and to families for learning, for creativity and for pleasure.
The BBC Creative Archive will establish a pool of high-quality content which can be legally drawn on by collectors, enthusiasts, artists, musicians, students, teachers and many others, who can search and use this material non-commercially. And where exciting new works and products are made using this material, we will showcase them on BBC services." (Source: The Creative Archive in 'Building Public Value'. See BbcInfo for details)
What Are Free Culture UK Doing
Free Culture UK has taken over the activities of Friends of the Creative Domain and is campaigning to ensure that:
- The Creative Archive goes ahead
- The Creative Archive is as open and free as possible so that citizens both in the UK and around the world can use and reuse the archive to the greatest extent possible
Back in 2004 Friends of the Creative Domain coordinated responses to the BBC's charter review:
- FCD sent an [/open_letter_200406 open letter]
Reason to have a Creative Archive - please add your comments on why you think the CreativeArchive is a good idea and what it could do for you or others.
Written testimony from EFF to the DMCS committee working on the Charter
Recently, in May 2006, Free Culture UK authored another letter to the Creative Archive Licence Group