BBC Prepares For A Copyright-Free Future

“The British Broadcasting Corporation’s Creative Archive, one of the most ambitious free digital content projects to date, is set to launch this fall with thousands of three-minute clips of nature programming. The effort could goad other organizations to share their professionally produced content with Web users. The project, announced last year, will make thousands of audio and video clips available to the public for noncommercial viewing, sharing and editing.” And it may herald a new global era of more liberal licensing and less restrictive copyright enforcement.