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BBC News Offers Free, Remixable Video Clips to U.K. Users

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 3, 2006 - 8:01am.
London - BBC News announced that it has opened up its online video archive to U.K. Internet users, who are free to download clips and re-use them at their leisure. The Open News Archive will contain clips including BBC footage of the 1966 England World Cup team, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The video will be offered under the Creative Archive License, which allows users to freely edit and remix the video for their own purposes. "This trial is an important step in allowing us to share with our audiences the extraordinary news archive which the BBC has recorded over the years," said BBC News director Helen Boaden. "We look forward to getting their reaction."
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