German broadcasters get Creative Commons

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On December 14 Creative Commons celebrates five years already (parties in Berlin and San Francisco. So German public service broadcaster NDR has the timing right, last week they started an experiment that should be followed by many: they have Creative Commons-licensed material from two TV shows. Although the presentation isn’t as good as it could be, it’s exciting to read comments like this from a broadcasting director:

The content we provide on the web has been paid by our visitors via the licence fee already. Since we mainly reach a younger audience on the web, the use of a creative commons license is especially interesting for us.

(via Lessig blog).

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