Great news and a big step in the right direction. We've very eager
to get a look at the license to see the details. I'll work on
getting the Alito hearing coverage taht they made us take down up! :D
Floor proceedings of full US House and Senate, as broadcast by C-
SPAN, are public domain. Everything else the carry that is filmed
with their cameras -- presidential, state dept, etc., press
conferences, committees, protests, book TV, washting journal.. is all
subject to copyright. Most of the above (not bookTV/wash. journal,
etc) will be under these new relaxed rules.
My initial response is that we should celebrate this as a victory for
opening access to this content, but that we should still work on
getting enabling greater access to Public Domain feeds. A better
assessment will be possible once we know the details of the license -
'borrows from "Creative Commons"' is pretty vague - it sounds like cc-
attrib-nc, but "what is/is not commercial" is an important question.
-aphid
On Mar 7, 002007, at 3:00 PM, Liza Sabater wrote:
> May I then suggest we get from them a clarification? In this case,
> I believe public domain content should be made available no matter
> what people intend to use it for --for profit, non-profit,
> artistic, education etc. Look at the case with the documentary Eye
> on the Prize. A masterpiece that was pulled out of circulation
> because they could not pay for the copyright licensing of footage
> that due to their historic importance ought to be in the public
> domain.
> There are many points we could go after but I feel that the
> clarification would serve one main purpose : To define what is
> public domain (and thus open and free to use) content within the
> context of C-SPAN.
> Best,
> liza
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