Lessig on the BBC Creative Archive

Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 10 September 2003 at 3:28 pm | Tagged as: Business

Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University and cultural commentator thinks that the BBC have got it right with their proposal of making their freely archive available to the public for non-commercial uses.

By making the content available, commercial entities will also be able to identify BBC material and then license it for a fee.

Lessig describes this as “a brilliant response to the extra ordinary explosion of creative capacity enabled by digital technologies.”

There is less evidence of this sort of thinking in the US: corporations there are opposed to sharing standards and protocols and, as highlighted by the fascinating and ongoing Linux vs SCO vs IBM case, suspicious of the open source movement.

Original FT article

Lessig on Intellectual Property

Lessig’s weblog