BBC Radio 4 In Business: "Free for all"
I was just making dinner, listening to Radio 4, when something caught my ear. The words "Creative Commons". Wait, what? Why are they talking about this? It turned out to be a nice introduction to free/Free, copyright, creative commons, free culture, delivered by Auntie. A communist conspiracy!
You can get it on the podcast or stream it from here. Show it to your unenlightened friends!
edit: It appears that the versions I linked to cut off early. If you're in the UK you can listen to the whole version on the iPlayer.
Tags: foss, free culture, Linux
January 9th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Heard it too! Made me wish I could post it to the Planet, but guessed someone would do so fairly quickly. Good on you for getting there first. Fairly good feature, and an all too rare covering of our world on Auntie. Maybe someone will rip it to share with the non-UK??
January 9th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I think I remember hearing that radio content is open to all on iPlayer, it's just TV that is locked down to us lucky few.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Yeah, thanks for the post – I enjoyed listening to it last night.
I recall a previous "In Business" from probably a year or more ago where there were some great quotes. I emailed the producer (via the Beeb's website) and asked for permission to quote and use snippets in our own materials.
Although I never actually got round to doing so, there were positive in their response and said fine go ahead.
Seeing as there was a fair discussion on CC I would assume they would rather shoot themselves in the foot if they wouldn't allow the podcast to be propogated/quoted etc.
In fact I will ask. It is a great introduction to FOSS for the non-technical minded.
Al
January 9th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Ask them to CC-license it and release an MP3? I like it!
January 9th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Done.
I requested (on behalf of my company) that I be permitted to use quotes/audio snippets and even provide a full copy for long-term availability.
I also requested if they could release this programme under a CC license.
Of course, if more than one interested party makes the request, it might hold more weight…
It will be interesting to get their response.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
[...] idea struck me whilst I was leaving a comment on Iain's original [...]
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:24 am
Hi Laney,
The BBC gave me a transcript of this programme to use as I wish.
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/