The BBC is putting its vast archives on-line for free download. Not only that - but people can do whatever they want with the content provided that it's non commercial.
This is exciting news. Open source content. I'd heard about the BBCs plans some time ago - and there was great debate about whether or not they were going to go forward with it. Now it turns out they will.
This will be a pilot project - but if it works out perhaps, maybe just maybe, it will prove once and for all that there is more benfits to humanity as a whole by loosening the grip on intellectual property and content.
andre
Posted by andre at March 30, 2004 02:48 AM