See it all adds up…
The BBC Creative archive + icommons + Sara Geater = BBC adopting a CC licencing scheme.

“By applying a CC-type license to the content, the BBC will enable individuals in the UK to download released content to their computers, share it, edit it and create new content. Commercial reuse of the content will not be allowed.

Professor Lawrence Lessig, chair of the Creative Commons project was clearly excited: “The announcement by the BBC of its intent to develop a Creative Archive has been the single most important event in getting people to understand the potential for digital creativity, and to see how such potential actually supports artists and artistic creativity.” He went to enthuse “If the vision proves a reality, Britain will become a centre for digital creativity, and will drive the many markets – in broadband deployment and technology – that digital creativity will support.”

Now we've got lots to talk about tonight at the Creative Commons in a Connected World (don't get me started on the site, reminds me I need to send my email once again…) I'm hoping Sara Geater will be there otherwise I will be emailing her about icommons in the very near future. Now I remember why I wanted to join the BBC.

I've posted my notes online in html and opml formats.
And here's some photos of the event which by the way was good but nothing much more that what I read in free culture and heard before from Lessig. However Lessig did make reference to two fundimental critical thinking ideas. As the uk was the motherland of copyright for America, what can the uk teach america about the next era of copyright? Think about how a mother desaplin its children… and more of a statement. when people start writing their opinions down (case in blogs), they discover they are just… idiotic.

Some other useful links
BBC prepares to put TV archive on Web by ZDnet UK and Rupert Goodwins comment is good too.
Official BBC Press Release. BBC prepares to put TV archive on web by ZDNet Australia. Slashdot view from last week – BBC creative archives based on creative commons licences.

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I just wrote a reply to John's email to the college on Friday.

Thank you John,

I would like to say a public thank you to everyone involved.
Miles and John for there support. Harry for running out of the lectures to attend to external visitors. Dave for all his hard work. Most of the Interaction design course for helping out when ever possible, even with project deadlines looming. John for collecting Stallman from Waterloo, Kevin and Roman for there network knowledge and speedy deployment in the face of unreasonable demands. Armin for fighting off a cold to moderate. Lisa for helping out in anyway possible. Adam for helping with the streaming and transporting of equipment. CNDI generally for all there support. And last but not least, to Cathy who allowed the event to go ahead without the draconian restrictions others would have placed on the event.

And to all those who came or tuned into the live streams. As John said it was a major coup for the college that we were able to gather some a line up of international guests.

And it showed because we recieved external visitors from as far as oxford and cambridge universities. It was a shame other departments including marketing didnt get involved because it was a great day for the college and will not be repeated or bettered anytime soon.
The overall turn out was about half ravensbourne students and half external visitors. We also recieved great response from our listeners who tuned in through-out the whole day, even during the breaks. I am still recieving great feedback through my email today.

Copyright is a issue which keeps raising its head in the college and no one really tackles it in the way we did on Thursday 20th May.

Thank you once agin to all involved…

Ian Forrester – BBC worldservice new media

The archived streams will be up some this week or next week. Keep an eye on http://cubicgarden.com/copyright for more information and feeback

> Hi All
>
> i just thought you all should know that yesterdays lecture series
> “Copyright vs The Community” was not only successful and informative
> but went off without a hitch. This was due largely to the efforts of Ian
> Forrester, late of this org but now with the BBC.
> This was an event that is unlikely to be repeated anywhere ever again.
> To get the likes of Fravia, Richard Stallman & Cory Doctorow together
> for one event would be cosiddered a coup for a major international
> event.
>
> Once again many thanks to Ian for his efforts.
>
> regards to all
>
> john

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Cant leave your machine to listen to the lectures?

Listen right now…

http://tributary.rave.ac.uk:8100/copyright.ogg – for the ogg vorbis stream (prefered)

http://tributary.rave.ac.uk:8100/copyright.mp3 – for the mp3 stream

http://cubicgarden.com/copyright

Some of the referals on the day and the day before…
http://nobodynet.ddts.net/palm/palmntk.htm – found a more palmtop accessable version of NTK?
http://persone.softwarelibero.org/event/show.php?id=88 – Wow, can someone translate? Lycos can.

Hello to all, I invite to you to watch this link:
http://cubicgarden.com/copyright/ One beautifulst conference to the
standard of the defense of the digital freedoms them. I go to us with
a group of friends, excused if I have it marked with a little delay,
but they are enrolled to me only now

http://fravia.2113.ch/phplab/mbs.php3/mb001?num=-1&thread=1084567600 – Someone from Fravia's site jumped to cubicgarden.com/copyright without a link?
A few people came from my own blog pages which is useful to know
The link on free london list worked a treat – http://www.londonfreelist.com/details.asp?id=11024
Yahoo and Google bots were all over the site, hence – http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pull-web-t&p=copyright+vs+community and http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=copyright+vs+community&btnG=Search
Jeeves/Teoma and MSN also got into the action by the way…
Thanks Nico – http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=edlondon
Thanks David – http://www.blockey.com/bhd/links.html
Thanks Louise – http://www.louiseferguson.com/events.htm
Thanks Harry – http://www.harryjones.net/home/#000080

Got a few referes via
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15797
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.londonsocialforum.org/wiki/upcoming_events
http://udoo.org/events
We hit indy media – http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2004/05/291150.html
And of course NTK was the main referer page – http://www.ntk.net and unexpectly http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/news/news.php – Thanks for that.

What on earth is this? http://radiocomments.userland.com/profiles/$6153

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