Creative Commons News Media Video - Al Jazeera

As the world's first independent Arab news channel, Al Jazeera has been at the centre of controversy in the west and the Middle East for its coverage of news, primarily in the Middle East that shows perspectives often not shown by western news sources, or indeed by many of the government run news agencies of countries in the Middle East itself.

Al Jazeera posts much of its video footage to Blip.tv under open creative commons licenses, as part of its stated mission "to make its unique content accessible to audiences around the world".

In providing its news footage under CC licenses, it became the first news broadcaster to do so - one hopes that many will pick up on and follow it's innovative example.

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