The Italian Government has prepared the new guidelines for the Italian public television (RAI).
It is delightful to read that one of them is:

• (in Italian) offrire all’utenza, nell’ambito della licenza nome come Creative Commons, la possibilita' di scaricare via Internet tutti i contenuti radio-televisivi prodotti dalla RAI mediante proventi dei canoni di abbonamento;


• (in English) offer, under a Creative Commons licence, the possibility to download through Internet all the radio and television content produced by RAI using the mandatory subscription fees;

Thanks to Stefano Quintarelli for the good news, you can read more of the guideline on his blog (in Italian): another very interesting point is the mention to incentive the upload of user-generated content on rai.it
Since this post is too optimist, let me quote the last sentences of Stefano:
this are 3 steps in the right direction, the very right direction, the VERY RIGHT direction.
Ale'!
(well, Italy is Italy and after 3 steps forward it is always possible to make 6 steps backward)
[via punto-informatico]