January 12th, 2006
BBC TV News archives
Posted by
Ben in
General
The BBC as a public broadcaster has an interesting and somewhat unique position when it comes issues of copyright and digital rights management. One in a series of innovative ideas it is experimenting with, is to allow free online access for UK-based viewers to archive TV news footage - under a “Creative Archive Licence“.
“The Open News Archive” is currently a testbed allowing viewers to download any of about eighty historical news reports of significant events in either Windows Media, Quicktime, or MPEG-1 formats.
International (non-UK) readers should note that if your IP address is not a UK one, it won’t allow you access. In theory one might use some sort of UK-based proxy server, although that would contravene their usage terms
