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Creative Archive Licence

The Creative Archive Licence Group was launched on April 13th 2005, by founding members the BBC, the bfi, Channel 4 and the Open University, to make content available for download under the terms of a single, shared user licence scheme. This licence, called the Creative Archive Licence, has been created for the downloading of moving images, audio and stills.

The BBC launched this website to introduce and test the novel concept behind the Creative Archive Licence with you: the audience, the market place and policy makers. We want your feedback on the licence and your understanding of it. We also want to know what kind of material and the different formats you prefer to use so that we can best prioritise digitisation and rights clearance throughout the pilot and beyond. We also hope to better understand how you will engage with the archive content we plan to release.

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We, the BBC, are working hard to look at new ways to clear the copyright on TV and Radio output so that you, the British public, can get creative with it. We are currently piloting the release of content under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence over an 18 month period after which the BBC Board of Governors will assess the service according to its public value.

This site will keep you informed of how we are addressing the complexities of clearing copyright, digitising and making available some of the great factual material stored in the BBC's archive.

Over the next 18 months we plan to make 100 hours of BBC content available to rip, mix and share under the Creative Archive Licence as part of a series of campaigns, the first of which is scheduled for August. We'll put the details of these campaigns on this site as they emerge.