Creative archive licence group

[francis]

Very interesting. Today sees the launch of the creative archive licence group (http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/index.html), a collaboration between the BBC, Channnel 4, the BFI and the Open University to make programmes available to everyone, initially in the UK only, under a similar licence system introduced by the folks at Creative Commons. Here's the project timetable. (http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/archives/what_is_the_creative_archive/project_timetable/index.html)

[David]

Wonderful - what the web was made for.

I'm currently considering using the Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) licence for the CADTutor site. Haven't really decided whether it really makes that much difference to the way people will behave but I reckon it's more to do with demonstrating solidarity more than anything else.

[francis]

Yes, CC seems to be very popular (Yahoo even have a dedicated CC content search) (http://search.yahoo.com/cc), but I'm sceptical as to whether the licences change people's behaviour to copying content.

I do like the fact that there's a specific Dr Who question in the FAQs (http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/archives/what_is_the_creative_archive/project_faqs/index.html)!

[Tom]

Re the BBC, the principle is clear. The contracts they strike with staff and contributors should be 'the GB public is paying for this and the GB public will own the copyright'. I have done a very few interviews for the BBC and (1) they did not offer to pay me (2) they did not speak to me about copyright - but presumably they claim to own it.

Here is my prediction: when the BBC brass get to choosing between letting us have what is ours and raking in some more dosh for their pensions scheme, they will be so tempted by the latter prospect that what we get will be tokenism (as are the present samples). Do you really need to pay over £1m/year to get a bloke or bloke-ess to take on a managerial position at the Beeb? I'd have thought one tenth of that would do nicely.

[francis]

Originally posted by David@Apr 13 2005, 7:26 pm
Wonderful - what the web was made for.
Indeed. This is interesting as well. Multi-million selling band Nine Inch Nails (or, at least, Trent Reznor who is NIN) has has put their brand new single online (http://www.nin.com/current/) as a GarageBand package for the Mac. Trent has made the whole thing available for anyone to play with. From the readme:

Hello all-
For quite some time I've been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks - to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what's there. I tried a few years ago to do this in shockwave with very limited results.
After spending some quality time sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology now exists and is already in the hands of some of you. I got to work experimenting and came up with something I think you'll enjoy.
What I'm giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for "the hand that feeds" in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible.

Hit the space bar. Listen.
Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you'd like.

There are some copyright issues involved, so read the notice that pops up. Giving this away is an experiment. I'm interested to see what comes of it, what issues are raised and what the results are.
Have fun-
Trent Reznor
April 15, 2005

Phil - you'll need GarageBand 2 and a recommended 1gb of RAM (although it works 80% of the time with my 512 system)