I know that it's the rights issues as much s anything that ispreventing the opening up of these archives, and we all know how slowly all the unions move in relation to new technologies and blanket agreements etc.

Surely though, if the BBC were to propose a small administrative fee for access to these archives, (as they do belong in part to us, as we paid our license fee for their creation in the first place) then that might cover any fees the societies might demand later down the line?

i understand the conversion into internet happy formats, plus the cataloguing etc is a huge cost. And the pressure from Worldwide to not impinge on their income streams must be massive.
But an archive like this, properly managed will have huge benefits to this country and indeed the world for decades to come

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