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Tuesday, 1 February 2011

EXPLOITING THE ARCHIVES…

The European Audiovisual Observatory has published an IRIS Special publication on Digitisation and online exploitation of broadcasters’ archives from a number of different perspectives. The archives of many television broadcasters now contain materiel which includes more than half a century of contemporary, documentary and entertainment history and are of immense cultural and economic value. Digitisation has created an entirely new technical basis for making these assets available to a wide audience, and there are a whole range of projects aimed at opening up audiovisual archives (including those of broadcasters). Examples that might be mentioned are the BBC Creative Archive, the Dutch Filmotech initiative or the French Inamédiapro database. However, many projects to open up broadcasters’ archives and exploit them online generally run up against serious problems when it comes to clearing the rights for these archived works.

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