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"The BBC may consider offering paid access to its website for overseas users, according to Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of new media and technology.

"Speaking to media and technology magazine Digital Lifestyles, Mr Highfield said pay-per-view or pay-per-play options might be possible off the back of the BBC’s Creative Archive project.

"The archive will be an extensive library of BBC radio and TV programmes, available free of charge in the UK for non-commercial use. The first stage of the archive goes live this autumn and will include natural history footage."

Jemima Kiss. Global BBC site Could be Pay Per Play. dotJournalism. Sept. 2, 2004.