Cory Doc­torow claims The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth over at Wired News. It’s a pretty good art­icle talk­ing about some of the things the BBC has been doing to open up its con­tent to its audience.

America’s enter­tain­ment industry is com­mit­ting slow, spec­tac­u­lar sui­cide, while one of Europe’s biggest broad­casters — the BBC — is rush­ing head­long to the future, embra­cing innov­a­tion rather than fight­ing it.

Unlike Hol­ly­wood, the BBC is eager and will­ing to work with a bur­geon­ing group of con­tent pro­viders whose interests are aligned with its own: its audience.

I am full of admir­a­tion for the pion­eers work­ing there. Whilst I know they haven’t yet gone all the way with regards to Cre­at­ive Com­mons licens­ing. They have been in close con­sulta­tion with the UK and Scot­land launches of the Cre­at­ive Com­mons licens­ing pro­cess, and they have been work­ing on some CC-like licens­ing, as well as get­ting clauses in the CC licences spe­cific­ally address­ing the BBC.