French National TV Puts Up Archives Online

(via ThisFrenchLife) What the Brits can do, the French can do one better, or so they would tell you: the same week BBC announced putting text of its TV programs online (and of course its video archives project), the French state agency Institut National de l’Audiovisuel has gone one step more and is putting up programs online from as far back as the 1920s, featuring Edith Piaf, Brigitte Bardot and many others. In total, it has put online 100,000 broadcasts dating back as far as the 1940s, most of it free of charge.
Four-fifths of the broadcasts are free to watch or listen to. The rest, covered by copyright, require a small fee. All the material online comes from the state channels and stations which held a monopoly until 1986, but the INA is negotiating with the commercial networks to all their broadcasts.

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