Creative Commons featured an interview Jane Park had with two producers (Sue Ellen McCann and Craig Rosa) of KQED QUEST, which is a science and environment series about the San Francisco Bay Area. KQED and QUEST is considering to release openly raw footage, and their CC licensed photos.
Excerpts from the Interview:
Craig: … one of the most important things you can do for your content is to make it as shareable and open and distributable as possible while of course still retaining the appropriate rights to manage that content.
Sue: (reflecting on the open education movement said) PBS has actually been in the Open Educational Resources movement since its inception. Its mission has always been to produce a media for the public. So for years and years and years, when particularly television broadcasts were made, educators were able, for the first seven days of that broadcast, to record whatever program they wanted and use it for free in their classroom. So it’s not a new concept for public media. And while there have been restrictions on how it can be used, that comes from two reasons—one is rights that is connected with the content which limit the way that that content can be used. The second one is economics, as I mentioned before.
