Re: [Fsuk-manchester] BBC Release Creative Commons TV Show

[Tim Dobson]

Lucy wrote:
> I know that we've had previous discussions about the use of free
> software by the BBC and of its continuing use of DRM and restrictive
> copyright for its shows. Well, the BBC have announced a new project
> called R&DTV, created by RAD and BBC Backstage/ R&D [1].

It's interesting the BBC is getting slated for the non commercial bit of 
the creative commons non-commercial attribution licence as the other 
place where the BBC is pushing the boundaries here is use of free formats.

In my eyes, it's unlikely in the near future that content decide to 
retroactively licence popular media with creative commons attribution or 
attribution sharealike licences or similar. However, once they get their 
head round DRM actually being counter productive to their aims - thus 
defectivebydesign - I can see no reason why free formats cannot be used 
to redistribute media.

If we look at the actual BBC Backstage - 
http://welcomebackstage.com/2009/04/rd-tv-a-collaborative-project-between-bbc-backstage-rad/ 

blog post - we can see the video has intitally been released in OGG 
Theora with future episodes likely to be released in Matroshka and Dirac 
I'd imagine...

Personally I'd say this is a big step forward - sure the media *is not* 
free, but does it need to be?

This video can be remixed. That's more than can be said for the video of 
RMS speaking in Manchester last May.
http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/2008/05/06/free-software-in-ethics-and-society-richard-stallman-manchester-1st-may/

thoughts and constructive flames?

Tim

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