Australian Broadcasting Corp. Adds Archival Video to Wikimedia Commons, Available Under CC License

From the Wikimedia Blog:

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the national public broadcaster, turns 80 this year. To celebrate it has launched a new website called “80 Days That Changed Our Lives“, giving 80 pieces of audio visual content from the ABC archives a new lease on life. Today, the ABC has also announced that it has gone a step further by releasing some of these historical news reports to Wikimedia under a Creative Commons free license. This release of highly encyclopedic audiovisual history is not only a first for Australia, it is a first for Wikimedia.
While this is the first collection of broadcast “packaged” footage released to Wikimedia Commons under a free license, the leader in the field for several years has been Al Jazeera who have been sharing some of their contemporary footage on their own Creative Commons portal. With their project Open Beelden the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision have also shared online many historical newsreels that have acquired. Both of these collections have since been copied into Wikimedia Commons. The ABC is also following in the footsteps of Radio y Televisión Argentina who have previously released some of their archival recordings and parliamentary speeches.
You can view the collection of files on Wikimedia Commons, which all available to use, remix and share, at Category: Files from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

See Also: ABC leads with an Australian first in content sharing with Wikimedia Commons (via Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
See Also: ABC Open Archive

Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, News, Reports