Good news for Intelligent Television:
A collection of documentary videos on OA is a giant step closer to a screen near you, thanks to a grant from the Open Society Institute. See the September 17 announcement from Intelligent Television and BioMed Central:
The Open Society Institute has awarded a grant to support the production and distribution [...]
What’s All This Muntzing Stuff, Anyhow?
Nice story on history of television.
(tags: television history)
Creationists vs. Atheists: Takedown Battle on YouTube
(tags: copyright)
Head of US copyright says “DMCA does what it is supposed to do” - Boing Boing
(tags: copyright LC)
Peter Suber, Open Access News
(tags: copy)
Fair use industries returned $4.5 trillion to the US in 2006 - Boing Boing
Ghost works is next…
(tags: copyright)
CCIA’s estimate of the fair use economy
Poetic truths, like the RIAA’s numbers, countered with other poetic truths that seem, somehow, more believable.
(tags: copyright economics open content)
3rd International Digital Curation Conference
11-13 December 2007 in DC
IS&T’s Archiving Conference
June 24-27, 2008, Bern, Switzerland
CFP Open for TOC 2008, Feb. 11-13 in New York
ORA conference, Tools of Change
Draft NARA Digitizing Plan Available for Public Comment
Excellent move by NARA to collect input re: mass digitization agreements.
(tags: archiving digitization)
Peter Brantley on The Living New Deal Project
Gray Brechin’s Living New Deal Project set in context
(tags: arc)
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format | EFFI.org
Archive Sues to Recover 5 Million Emails
Fair use is not a consumer right
(tags: Copyright)
SeaChange Debuts Video Storage System - TVover.net
(tags: DAM)
Framing the Elusive Concept of Sustainability: A Sustainability Hierarchy
How about if it’s not accessible, it’s not sustainable?
(tags: Sustainability)
Official Google Blog: Collect, share, and discover books
Remixing books.
(tags: Google books)
Second look: Inside the FCC’s “Report on Violent Programming and Its Impact on Children” - Lasar’s Letter on the FCC (LLFCC)
(tags: television violence)
ACLU Comments to the Federal Communications Commission re: MB Docket No. 04-261, the Matter of Violent Television Programming and Its Impact on Children
(tags: television violence)
ANA - ANA Files Statement With Senate Commerce Committee [...]
wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Wonderbra! | MetaFilter
Ads from the 1960s & 1970s.
(tags: ads video television consumer history)
Joho the Blog: Freedom of Less Information Act
(tags: foia)
How to break DRM - easy step-by-step explanations - iTunes, DVDs, etc.
Helping archivists cope with DRM.
(tags: DRM archiving)
Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we [...]
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