Al Jazeera Network will make some of its Arabic and English video footage available online for free, the network announced on the Creative Commons Web site.

The network will allow viewers and other broadcasters to share and reuse the footage, which will be licensed under the non-profit sharing system Creative Commons, for free.

The video will be posted on the Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository site, and released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license, which is the least restrictive and allows for both non-commercial and commercial use, according to the Web site.

"With the flexibility of the licence, we expect to introduce our outstanding coverage to an even wider audience across the world. This means that news outlets, filmmakers and bloggers will be able to easily share, remix, and reuse our footage," Mohamed Nanabhay, head of new media at Al Jazeera, said in the release.

Al Jazeera did not mention if it will monetize the content in any way.