On 26/03/2008, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/03/2008, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's great news. > > > > How about a BBC trial? "Click" would be a good choice? > > Don't hold your breath. BBC is all non-DRM download trialed out. > > It's 18 months after the Creative Archive (download, watch, some > re-use rights granted) trial closed. http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/ > looks decidedly dead.
Not a great suprise. It wasn't really very "open" and the provided content was a bit random. Not really an Archive, it had more the feeling of a condom dispender in the gents of a nightclub. The Open Archive trial (some download, watch, no-re-use rights) closed > last year, although all evidence of it appears to have been expunged > from bbc.co.uk/archive Oh yeah... still there's http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bbc.co.uk/archive<http://web.archive.org/web/20070504083421rn_2/www.bbc.co.uk/archive/> The Video Podcast trial also closed last summer. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/5202498.stm A shame that, the Newsnight one was quite good. The next step should be the BBC asking the BBC Trust to do a public > value test on their proposals. "public value test" = device for kicking things into the longest grass. No sign of this having happened on the BBC Trust Website... > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
