the bbc have come up trumps (again)...
i contacted the bbc a while back to enquire about using their archive video footage and the price i got quoted was frankly absurd. so it's great to see that they have developed a route for making archive footage available for non commercial use.
it's a trial with the creative archive license. 100 clips have been made available to download and use free under terms of the license. it seems that VJs have been uppermost in their thinking... the only bit of bad news is that the terms of the license are restricted to the UK only. (i can feel the groans coming from downunder and across the atlantic).
it's brilliant news (at least for those of us in the uk). and i'm making VJ superstars worship trick 31
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great find... a few of these will come in handy for greenbelt. good on the bbc for getting in on creative licensing :-)
Posted by: gareth | August 21, 2005 at 12:15 PM
*groan*
Posted by: darren | August 21, 2005 at 02:33 PM
You can't beat the good ol' Beeb...
I've downloaded the New York skyscrapers and the Mexican highway already!
Posted by: Andy S | August 21, 2005 at 10:43 PM
Nothing to do with your BBC post, but I saw this posted on a friends blog earlier and I thought as you are the proud Ipod owner you would appreciate it....
www.nytimes.com/video/html/2005/06/29/technology/highbandwidth/windowsmedia/20050629_GUEST_VIDEO.html
Posted by: Richard James | August 22, 2005 at 05:18 PM
this is great news. going to have a lot of fun playing with these.
Posted by: Ben | August 22, 2005 at 08:28 PM
Excellent. I often also use the Prelinger archives: http://www.archive.org/details/movies.
Posted by: Eric Coomer | August 23, 2005 at 08:54 AM