On 26 February 2010 15:21, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've been thinking about the BBC and some of its
news/factual content
and whether they might be willing to release some of it under CC-BY-SA
and therefore appropriate to embed in Wikipedia.
Speaking from some slight internal knowledge - my work used to cross
over very strongly with BBC stuff - there is basically a strong
faction in the BBC that wants stuff to be available under free
licenses, and a strong faction that doesn't. The latter is smaller but
more powerful.
Getting a major news organisation to go for free content would be a
MASSIVE WIN for free culture, even just the *teeny tiniest bit*.
So yeah, this has been floating around for at least the past five
years ... no reason not to push it now as well.
- d.