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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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