BBC's Creative Archive: The Moral Imperative

Ben Hammersley makes a strong argument to kickstart Creative Archive, the ambitious BBC project to put all TV shows/news as archives online. Two years since the project was announced, Creative Archive has released only an hour of footage.

He says that content proivers to BBC, who get paid through the license fee, should *not* be given an option to withold rights, since it is done under the public remit anyway. “Why are the creative industries in the UK allowed to take public money, without fulfilling the obligation to deliver publicly accessible value? Why is this even an option? We have paid for it, now let us use it…The negotiation should be simple: no public rights, no public money [for you]. “

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