Television Archiving

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Jeff Ubois — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:00:46 +0000

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"Common as Air": The argument against intellectual property | Slide Show – Salon.com

Jeff Ubois — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:01:12 +0000

Nice cartoon based review of Lewis Hyde's new book, "Common as Air."

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No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International

Jeff Ubois — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:03:32 +0000

"Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country's industrial might."

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Mass Amateur Digitization and Mobilizing the Public

Jeff Ubois — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:01:36 +0000

If You Build It, They Will Scan: Oxford University’s Exploration of Community Collections (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE

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Out now: Digital Content Quarterly issue 3 at Strategic Content Alliance blog

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:47 +0000

Am late noting this one, but much worth reading here, especially Fluency in Film and Sound: a new cultural imperative.

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Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:02:16 +0000

Pew reports 34 % of U.S. cell phone customers use their phones to record video. GigaOm reports on this, and notes that YouTube mobile videos increased 160 percent in 2009.

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Wendy Seltzer on DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:02:15 +0000

Wonderful piece by Wendy Seltzer about DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation. "DRM frustrates lawful use and the creation of new technology products with- out saving the entertainment companies from the uncompensated reproduction they feared. In the meantime, it forecloses the open innovation that could lead them and society toward new options that could be better for creators and the public."

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AIMS project / born digital archives

Jeff Ubois — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:04:35 +0000

"The AIMS project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, represents a co-operative strategy among four partner institutions, to energize collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and to empower librarians and archivists in the management of born-digital assets. The four partners in the project led by the University of Virginia are Stanford University, University of Hull and Yale University."

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Digital Lives

Jeff Ubois — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:00:28 +0000

Digital Lives has produced some of the best work on personal archiving, and is holding a seminar about it on Monday, 5 July.

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