Archive for October, 2006

Another reason for non-commercial archives

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

YouTube Deletes 30,000 Files After a Copyright Complaint. Copyright law can make it difficult to maintain archival integrity, especially for commercial organizations.

How Accessible are Historic Television Broadcasts?

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

In Chapter 9 of Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig and Brewster Kahle have a conversation about television archives: In addition to the Internet Archive, Kahle has been constructing the Television Archive. Television, it turns out, is even more ephemeral than the Internet. While much of twentieth- century culture was constructed through television, only a tiny proportion […]

Online Video and the Future of Broadcasting