Jeremy, thanks for this information and the correction on my comment. I'll be interested to explore this a bit.
And in case anyone is in London, as I assume Jeremy may be, take a journey on Sunday (Mar 18) to the Saatchi Gallery, where there is a 50 year anniversary retrospective of Sunday Times covers and photos. "so much media, so little time." > Hi All > > As some of you will know, I represent BBC Active Video for Learning, the > educational joint-venture between Pearson and BBC Worldwide in the UK. > > I thought I'd drop a note on here regarding the interesting news from > the BBC about Project Barcelona, which proposes to open up the BBC > archive for the purpose of paid-for downloads. > > My understanding is that, upon approval, this will be a UK-only service, > available to licence fee payers. If successful, I'm sure there would be > moves to commercialise it internationally but because of existing rights > arrangements it is difficult to see how this would be into educational > markets. > > The correct path for North American educational rights to BBC programmes > is and will remain via our service (www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com) > and that of our well-known authorised educational distributors in the > region. > > I was interested to see the comment from Randal that a lot of BBC > programming is not available in the US. At a consumer level this might > be true but for education we, or our distributors, can provide huge > swathes of the factual BBC archive for teaching use. > > We have a large listing of BBC programming and we operate as the gateway > to the archive for anything which isn't listed too - and we'd love to > hear from you! > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > Jeremy Wilcox > Head of Sales& Licensing > BBC Active > www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
