> > How about a letter supporting the efforts of the BBC to educate > > rights holders about the future of media?
>>Is there any evidence that there _are_ any such efforts that we can support? Well backstage is quite a good place to start. Yesterday the Cabinet Officde published a paper; The Power of Information; that it commissioned from Tom Steinberg, founder and Director of mySociety, and Ed Mayo, Chief Executive of the National Consumer Council . (It's a brilliant analysis of how and where the government can work alongside user communities, create value by making its data and information available in different formats and using different pricing models and a framework for doing so). One of the recommendations is to Recommendation 4. "To encourage innovation in the re-use of information by noncommercial users, UK trading funds should, in consultation with OPSI, examine the introduction of non-commercial re-use licences, along the lines of those pioneered by the BBC's Backstage project" So you could argue that effectively the Cabinet Office has warmly received proposals to change the rights framework of its (considerable) public information and data because the BBC (and Google and others) has pioneered this approach. http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/reports/power_information/p ower_information.pdf More on this in yesterdays Guardian.. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2101807,00.html ""The economic analysis is simply not there to justify the current position and policy that we have," Mayo said last week. The report calls on trading funds to grant free licences along the lines of those pioneered by the BBC in its Backstage project." I'd also point to the pioneering work of my radio colleagues in negotiating with record companies, equity and others the framework so that for the past 6-7 years a rights position has existed that has allowed for (worldwide in most cases) on demand radio listening for 7 days for 90% of the BBC's music and speech output across 8 national radio networks... thanks Jem - 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/[email protected]/
