Dawn of the digits: the BFI and the information society

The British Film Institute (BFI), which maintains the national collections of film and television, is developing plans to make this material accessible for educational use by deploying digital and network technologies. This project, the Imagination Network, as it is developed for higher education, brings to the fore both issues about the use of film and television in different subject areas and the current discussions in the European Union about changes to the intellectual property rights regime to take account of digital reproduction