Collected Data

"Where once the CBC's newscasters put on a brave face about doing more with less, now it's becoming clear that the CBC's governmental paymasters expect it to do a lot less with less."

Cory Doctorow writing for The Guardian;

The BBC had planned to clear the online rights to the vast quantities of material in its vaults, and change its commissioning so that any new material would also be pre-cleared. This material – a rich, publicly funded archive of the nation's collective cultural memory – would have been put online under a generous, creative commons-style licence for Britons to download, share, remix and re-contextualise decades' worth of material both beloved and forgotten.


What Canada's national public broadcaster could learn from the BBC