I’d read that Lawrence Lessig had been talking to the BBC about ways of opening up their content along the lines suggested and pioneered by the Creative Commons. Now, as the BBC unrolls its latest beautifully filmed natural world prog, Planet Earth, it seems they’re allowing people to patch together their own videos using content and music from the series.
The Beeb is using a ‘Creative Archive Licence’, a pilot of a Creative Commons-style licence that’s being used by Teachers’ TV and the BFI. Now Helen can patch together something for the animal behaviour bit of her A-Level Psychology lessons.
Lessig’s given an inspiring talk on the subject of copyright, copyright extension, and the creative commons that you can download as an MP3 from this page. Listen to it.