April 2005

April 28, 2005
Transcript: Peter B. Kaufman's speech

This is the full text of a speech made by documentary film producer Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television, at the Creative Archive Licence Group launch seminar on Wednesday 13th of April, as part of the event's second workshop.

April 15, 2005
Notes: Seminar workshop notes

On Wednesday 13th of April, the Creative Archive Licence Group held a half day seminar entitled Creative Fuel for the Nation: unlocking television, film and radio for the public. The afternoon started with a keynote from Lord Puttnam, followed by three workshops. Each workshop was asked to produce bullets points to summarise the issues, questions and themes that emerged.

April 15, 2005
Transcript: Lord Puttnam's speech

Speech
By Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE.
As delivered at:
The Creative Archive Seminar,
28 Portland Place,
London W1,
Wednesday 13th April, 2005.

April 13, 2005
Welcome to the Creative Archive Licence Group

The purpose of this site is to introduce the Creative Archive Licence. The Creative Archive Licence and the Creative Archive Licence Group logo are markers that let you know when you can access, download and re-use content from the contributing organisations.

In developing the licence, the BBC, Channel 4, the bfi and the Open University hope that other organisations will join the Creative Archive Licence Group and release content that will fuel a truly creative nation.

April 13, 2005
PR: Creative Archive Licence Group launches

BBC, Channel 4, British Film Institute and OU issue call to action for the Creative Archive Licence

Media and arts organisations, universities and libraries have today been urged to join an innovative new scheme designed to give the public access to footage and sound from some of the largest film, television and radio archives in the UK, as well as specially commissioned material.

April 12, 2005
bfi to offer silent comedy and drama

The British Film Institute will offer selected footage in a number of categories, including silent comedy, early literary adaptations, newsreel footage and archive footage of British cities in the early 20th century.

April 12, 2005
OU reveal how to spice up your next holiday video

The Open University will release clips of natural features, such as aerial views of the Franz Josef glacier, and will continue to select new material during the life of the pilot.

April 12, 2005
C4 to raise profile of UK's untapped creative talent

Throughout 2005, Channel 4 will continue to help the UK's untapped creative talent to get noticed.

Plans include:

4Docs, a brand new resource launching this spring for aspiring documentary film-makers that will include copyright-cleared stock footage for users to incorporate into their films.

April 12, 2005
BBC to release 100 hours of radio and television

During the pilot, the BBC plans to make 100 hours of BBC content available to rip, mix and share under the Creative Archive Licence. The BBC will be doing this by running a series of campaigns on bbc.co.uk, each of which will give you the opportunity to download, view, edit and share some of programming output.

April 11, 2005
Prelinger visits Creative Archive Licence Group

Rick Prelinger is in town to speak at the Creative Archive Licence Group seminar. He brings a unique perspective to the question of public and commercial value in video material via his release of the Prelinger Collection through the Internet Archive.

April 11, 2005
Creative Archive Seminar

A half day seminar is being convened as part of the launch of the Creative Archive Licence Group. The seminar, titled Creative Fuel for the Nation: unlocking television, film and radio for the public, is structured to work on many of the issues that need to be resolved in order to implement the full Creative Archive proposition.