Dyke to open up BBC archive

“Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation’s programme archives.”

Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet.”

“The service, the BBC Creative Archive, would be free and available to everyone, as long as they were not intending to use the material for commercial purposes, Mr Dyke added.” (from BBC News via Boing Boing)