BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative Commons 263
powcom writes "The BBC appears to be delivering on its promise of releasing its material to the public - they're modelling their licensing on Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig is very excited and so I imagine, will a lot of other people be - rightly." This brief article also mentions yesterday's release of
Creative Commons' 2.0 licenses -- well worth reading about.
In Related News... (Score:5, Funny)
Yaaaaaawn (Score:3, Funny)
on a rainy day.
Re:BBC viewpoint (Score:1, Funny)
Or maybe you Brits have Smarch?
What is being released exactly? (Score:4, Funny)
Does this mean (Score:2, Funny)
And in the US? (Score:3, Funny)
What about us over here in the USA? We like Monty Python as much as the next bloke! When do we get our hands on the free BBC archives?
Don't make us come over there and liberate your asses!
Re:Only one Fox (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What is being released exactly? (Score:2, Funny)
Because you want to, because you want to!
Billie Piper? GOD NO!! Anything but!!!
Patriotism (Score:3, Funny)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
~George Bernard Shaw
PATRIOTISM, n.
Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Re:The Beeb isn't only making money from license f (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, let's say that one of those companies produces a show where Cathy Rogers throws Alan Titchmarsh and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen out of an airplane and they have to assemble a decorative parachute from scrap materials before they hit the ground. If TLC picks it up and has Jesse James toss Hildi Santo-Tomas and Mikey Teutul out of a plane, does the Beeb really get a cut of the action? Sweeeeeet deal, if so.
Re:[Grammar-Nazi] "Creative Commons'" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Beeb isn't only making money from license f (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And in the US? (Score:3, Funny)
*Has a mental image of a yank wandering around London randomly pulling down people's trousers*
*shudder*
Re:hoping others will follow (Score:4, Funny)
Don't forget the dislike of the previous government. And the one before that. And the one before that as well. One of the best features of the BBC is that it contrives to be disliked by *every* government, *and* by whichever party is in opposition. They must be doing something right.
Re:Ignorance ensued (Score:1, Funny)
CROWN-charter. Hi, welcome to the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland. Meet our head of state, Queen Elizibeth II. Did you receieve your complimentary copy of the Magna Carta? Good good.
This isn't the U.S. The Crown is the head of state, not the Government. The Crown created both Parliment (Refer to your copy of the Magna Carta) and the British Broadcasting Coproration. The Crown is the boss in this town. The Prime Minister and the BBC both answer to the Crown.
I'd draw you a PowerPoint presentation with the full Organisation Chart but Slashdot wont let me, and the colours would only serve to distract you..