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brush up your shakespeare 
05.19.2005, 10:15 AM
posted by ben vershbow
In Wired yesterday, Cory Doctorow sums up recent brave efforts by the BBC to adapt to a changing world: BBC Backstage, the Creative Archive, and reader-contributed photos.
"America's entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacular suicide, while one of Europe's biggest broadcasters -- the BBC -- is rushing headlong to the future, embracing innovation rather than fighting it. Unlike Hollywood, the BBC is eager and willing to work with a burgeoning group of content providers whose interests are aligned with its own: its audience."
Above is a clip from a 1913 silent film version of Hamlet, downloadable for free from the British Film Institute under the aegis of the Creative Archive - one of the few bits of free content made available so far. It feels good to make a video quotation with total impunity. Perhaps others will be inspired to take a page from BBC's book.
Here also is Rick Prelinger's speech to the Creative Archive Seminar in April. Prelinger is one of America's great activist archivists.
Posted by ben vershbow on May 19, 2005 10:15 AM
tags: Copyright and Copyleft, Publishing, Broadcast, and the Press
comments (1):
Anne on May 19, 2005 08:28 PM:This is terrific and terrific news. So much copyright is so anti-intellectual, anti-sharing, anti-learning that it's always heartening to hear of moments of sharing that really can inspire. This is one of them. Thanks!
