Always liked BBC but the fact that they were the ones to actually upload these things is awesome.

Yeah, I’m not sure the BBC have. I think users have been uploading all that stuff. The BBC makes much of its archive available in the UK via iPlayer but not internationally as it has to use then commercially to help fund the organisation.

Copyright infringement is the biggest threat to the internet archive. Its already been through a case with book publishers and now its facing an existential threat woth a $400m lawsuit from the music industry.

I don’t think that’s quite what the situation is. “Creator” is a tag you can set when uploading something to Archive.org. People have uploaded things that are tagged with BBC as the Creator, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are either from the BBC or got their approval.

Clicking on a couple of uploads at random from the above link, they don’t seem to have obvious corporate names for their accounts. Not going to list any real uploaders because I’m not a snitch, but they have names in the realm of SherlockXWatsonLover1998, which probably indicates they’re not official.