BBC’s Creative Archives To Launch Next Month

(reg. req.): BBC’s ambitious online archiving project, “Creative Archives”, will launch next month, and Guardian does a fawning review and says that Larry Lessig made it happen…The Creative Archive will show the commercial world what happens when these [open-domain copyright etc] ideas are put into practice…The Creative Archive upgrades the vision of digital literacy from code to content, and, Lessig insists, will not only “drive demand for bandwidth, software and hardware tools in the UK to unprecedented levels” but also create a new generation of savvy media consumers who “instinctively understand how multimedia works”, putting the UK into pole position in the digital race.

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