Creative Archive News

In his speech, delivered at a Licence Group event in September, Lord Puttnam laid out his vision of the significance of the archive and drew comparisons between the Creative Archive and the early d...

The BBC’s trial phase of the Creative Archive licence has now drawn to a close. Over the last year the BBC has released nearly 500 clips, full programmes, audio tracks and images for the public to ...

The BBC’s Creative Archive pilot has come to a dramatic climax with the launch of a host of unseen, unique clips from the early days of television.

The Creative Archive Licence Group is pleased to announce that ITN Source (formerly ITN Archive Ltd) has joined the partnership and plans to share some of its library content under the Creative Arc...

The Open University has made 65 clips, taken from the rushes of OU course programmes, available under the Creative Archive Licence.

The discussion between the Creative Archive Licence Group and Free Culture UK, an organisation dedicated to the promotion of a "open, participatory culture", has continued.

Paul Gerhardt, the BBC's project director of the Creative Archive Licence, has responded to an open letter from Free Culture UK.

The BBC has opened its archive of news clips from Devon, Cornwall, Lincolnshire and Humberside, so that users can freely download and keep more than 100 clips for their own personal use.

The Open Earth Archive has been awarded a unique, especially created "Interactive Innovation" award in the British Academy Television Craft Awards.

The Open Schools Archive offers free archive content from the BBC for use in education.