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From the Netherlands, the "Images for the Future" project is building a large-scale conservation and digitization project to make available 285,000 hours of film, television, and radio recordings, as well as more than 2.9 million photos from the Netherlands' film and television archives. A basic collection drawn from the archive will be made available on the Internet either under CC licenses, or in some cases, in the public domain. The Government of the Netherlands, a long time supporter of the local Dutch CC project, will invest a total of 173 million Euros over a seven-year period. Their aim is to spur innovative applications with new media, while providing valuable services to the public.The idea of an archive like this is not new. But the scale and values of this project are extraordinary. The Netherlands may be a small country, but if it is successful, the "Images for the Future" project may well be the largest archive of free culture available anywhere in the world.Larry Lessig  in the CC Webloghttp://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6155See alsohttp://www.kennisland.nl/en/publications/reports/Images-for-the-Future.html