Katie Dean, Flexible Copyrights Hop the Pond, Wired News, April 18, 2005. Excerpt: 'The British Broadcasting Corporation recently unveiled a license that will allow the public to access free television footage, films and sounds from some of the largest media archives in the United Kingdom....[T]he effort is seen by copyright-reform advocates as a great development for sharing and building upon old works....The Creative Archive License, originally scheduled to launch last fall, borrows from the U.S.-based Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that develops and promotes flexible copyright licenses around the world. The license permits free use of materials as long as users credit the original author, use them in the United Kingdom for noncommercial purposes and agree to license what they make under the same terms. In addition, the work may not be used for political or derogatory purposes...."We have an obligation to the public to make that material accessible to the extent that that is possible within the terms of copyright law," said Richard Paterson, head of knowledge for [The British Film Institute], which holds 200,000 films and 400,000 television programs.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/18/2005 07:28:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
