Making Your Views Known

There are various things you can do:

• Write to your MP and DCMS
• Notify us of your support using the form provided
• Subscribe to the creative-friends mailing list

Writing to Your MP

To write to your MP we recommend you use http://www.faxyourmp.com. If you have or are going to write it would be great if you let us know - this allows us to track how many people have written and to whom. We have also provided below a list of 'talking points' to assist in the drafting of a letter.

Talking Points

Below are some of the things you might write to your MP. We haven't provided a form letter as they tend to be ignored or have significantly less impact (see here for why). Drafting your own letter, even if is only to flesh out the points below, will result in your efforts having a far greater effect. At the same time if you would like any assistance or comments please contact us.

• Indicate that you are in their district.
• Note that you are a TV license-payer.
• Explain why this is an important issue to you, and how you would use the Creative Archive.

• Urge them to support language in the new charter that would ensure a robust Creative Archive, and to express this support to the charter renewal committee. Good charter language would protect the BBC's ambitions for an archive which:
  • Draws from all areas of the BBC's broadcasting from news to sport.
  • Is available without "digital rights management" or other technology locks that will keep Britons from creatively re-using the BBC's offerings.
  • Provides material licensed under conditions that do not restrict any licence-payer from accessing, storing, modifying or sharing archive material for non-commercial use.
  • Provides material in its entirety for non-commercial use and not only in excerpted form.
  • Includes material that the BBC already owns the rights in at its launch or as soon after its launch as is possible, with other material to follow as soon as rights are cleared.
  • Benefits from future licensing agreements with independent producers that allow the BBC to make the works freely available for non-commercial use.