Archive for August, 2007

links for 2007-08-31

Friday, August 31st, 2007

DailyMotion Raises $34 Million; Another Copyright Infringing Success Story (tags: online video youtube) Fliqz Toolbar: Easily Upload And Embed Videos Anywhere (tags: tools online video) Who’s afraid of Google? | Economist.com (tags: privacy economist google)

links for 2007-08-29

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Peter Suber, Open Access News on PRISM (tags: astroturf OA) Andrew Leonard on PRISM Good piece on front group fighting OA. (tags: astroturf OA) YouTube – Yet another edit of the retro-futuristic motion logos (tags: tel)

links for 2007-08-28

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Is Web Video Ready for an HD Upgrade? « NewTeeVee Interesting numbers on delivery costs. (tags: hd cdn dsl contentdeliverynetworks video internet)

links for 2007-08-17

Friday, August 17th, 2007

The Record of Your Life as a Digital Archive – New York Times (tags: personal archiving tools) Scan This Book! – 8/15/2007 – Library Journal an interview with Brewster Kahle (tags: oca oa digitization)

links for 2007-08-16

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Library of Congress redeploys ex-Federal Reserve bank vault as a high-capacity digital archive (tags: LC archives) Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog » Google Books: Champagne or Sour Grapes? (tags: google) YouTube Downloads: vConvert.net DRM Dumpster automates the DRM stripping process – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (tags: drm tools) archivists : Message: Scribe/BookDrive scanning station [...]

links for 2007-08-14

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Study finds kids justify illegal downloads – Yahoo! News Jhannet Sejas, then this. Maybe the younger generation will undo the copyrightists and the 150 year terms. (tags: copyright idiocy) An Interview with Open Medicine’s Publisher – John Willinsky | Open Medicine Blog (tags: OA access) Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers | MetaFilter LC project provides [...]

links for 2007-08-13

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Video, Education, and Open Content CCNMTL/Intelligent Television conference videos are up! (tags: video archiving conference columbia intelligenttelevision)

links for 2007-08-11

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Boing Boing: Google Video robs customers of the videos they “own” A warning example to anyone buying media with DRM. (tags: DRM)

links for 2007-08-10

Friday, August 10th, 2007

State Of The Backlash: Regal Cinemas Facing Boycott After Pressing Charges Again Teen “Pirate” – Consumerist (tags: copyright)

RFP for the American Archive

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

This is now on the fast track: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (“CPB”) is hereby announcing a Request for Proposals (“RFP”) to secure an entity or individual to manage the American Archive 1.0 initiative in accordance with the information and guidelines published below. American Archive 1.0 will serve the American public by preserving, exhibiting, and [...]

links for 2007-08-09

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

CreateSpace, an Amazon on-demand self-publishing service, inks deal with National Archives for 100,000′s of public domain films | MetaFilter

links for 2007-08-06

Monday, August 6th, 2007

SSRN-Preliminary Thoughts on Copyright Reform by Pamela Samuelson (tags: copyright) Nothing to Watch on TV? Streaming Video Appeals to Niche Audiences – New York Times (tags: television video online) The Verneys – Adrian Tinniswood – NYT Interesting article on documents saved by 17th Century family in the UK (tags: PersonalArchiving personal archiving)

links for 2007-08-05

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

International Networks Archive \\ Remapping Our World Save A Film at the Academic Film Archive The ACA is an excellent, painstakingly assembled collection, run by folks in it for love, not money. Google did a secret deal with ACA more than a year ago, so it’s odd but good to see this new openness. It [...]

links for 2007-08-02

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

paidContent.org: Getty Images Profits Rise 45.3 Percent; 100 Staffers to Be Laid Off Content Makers Are Accused of Exaggerating Copyright – NYT (tags: copyright) Stop lying to the public about their fair use rights | MetaFilter (tags: copyright) Flash Sucks – I’m Mike (tags: flash)

Online Video and the Future of Broadcasting